You uploaded an APK or Android App Bundle which has an activity, activity alias, service or broadcast receiver with intent filter, but without 'android:exported' property set. This file can't be installed on Android 12 or higher

Rajdip_Roy · January 16, 2022, 3:21pm

Hey everyone. Recently I’ve developed an Andriod game using UE 4-27. The game has two levels, a main menu, an intro movie, an outro movie and I added a storyline to the game so that it makes sense to the users. Then i packaged it up and I’ve been trying to upload it to PlayStore for about a month now. While doing so, I came across many errors, most of which I solved on my own with the help of internet resources. But now, I’m stuck at an error which I don’t know how to fix. I searched everywhere but couldn’t find the solution. Can anyone here, help me about this? This is what the error loooks like:

In case the picture is not clearly visible enough, this is what it says:

You uploaded an APK or Android App Bundle which has an activity, activity alias, service or broadcast receiver with intent filter, but without ‘android:exported’ property set. This file can’t be installed on Android 12 or higher. See: Behavior changes: Apps targeting Android 12 | Android Developers

Please help me out guys. This is very important to me.

Panelsofsilence · January 16, 2022, 5:00pm

I have the same issue…
I’ve successfully packaged and published an AR app to the Google Play Store a month ago, but now I want to publish an updated version, and when I try to publish my .abb through Google App Exporter Bundle I have exactly the same error message.

tstrongvfx · January 16, 2022, 10:34pm

I am having the same problem with my mobile game any answers?

CriticalMovement · January 17, 2022, 9:39am

Same here, and the weirdest thing is that I published 3 games without a glitch and now on the fourth I’m getting this error. Even though my manifest looks exactly the same.

EDIT One way around this problem is setting back your target sdk version to 30,but this ofcourse is only mending the situation.

dev.ue.games · January 17, 2022, 10:27am

yes, but people on android 12 won’t be able to play

CriticalMovement · January 17, 2022, 10:28am

Know that, why I mentioned it’s only mending the situation

dev.ue.games · January 17, 2022, 10:30am

I’m trying to do it somehow through UPL but so far without success ((

Rajdip_Roy · January 17, 2022, 11:09am

Any solution guys?
Oh, and btw, I’m using GooglePAD Plugin to bind my obb with my aab. Maybe I did something wrong there. I don’t really know. I followed the entire process as mentioned in the official doc of Unreal regarding the usage of GooglePAD.

Paund · January 17, 2022, 11:32am

Hi there, same problem here, I found it on my first Update of 2022, It had worked perfectly until Jenuary…
I only understand that this problem is related to a permission not clearly granted or denied, since Android 12 want an explicit True or False for Android:Exported…
I tried to add this to every permission/activity but It didn’t work

CriticalMovement · January 17, 2022, 11:52am

[EDIT] just to be sure I reuploaded my apps that where running on android 12 and yes they now have the same problem.
Here’s our problem

Paund · January 18, 2022, 3:04pm

As far as I understanded , PAD only split your assets in differents chunk for Android to lighten your base APK, but this is more like a problem of permissions.
If you have problem with PAD you will receive some notification about the weight of the APK or the impossibility to reach some chunk in download

CriticalMovement · January 19, 2022, 10:09am

dont think the problem is in Google PAD,
here the line of code that’s in our manifest;

 <activity android:name="com.epicgames.ue4.SplashActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@style/UE4SplashTheme" android:launchMode="singleTask" android:screenOrientation="landscape" android:debuggable="false">
      <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
      </intent-filter>
    </activity>

and we need to declare our android permission in the first line of code so it looks like this;
<activity android:name="com.epicgames.ue4.SplashActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@style/UE4SplashTheme" android:launchMode="singleTask" android:screenOrientation="landscape" android:debuggable="false" android:exported="true">

tstrongvfx · January 19, 2022, 12:00pm

but we cant make a direct change to the manifest in android studio. so how would we even change it.

CriticalMovement · January 19, 2022, 12:04pm

yes, therein lies the problem, think we should find the bit of engine code that writes the manifest and edit it there, or wait for an update on the engine

Rajdip_Roy · January 19, 2022, 1:54pm

in what folder of your unreal engine project did you find the Manifest file?

dev.ue.games · January 20, 2022, 11:06am

your project \Intermediate\Android\arm64\AndroidManifest.xml

tstrongvfx · January 21, 2022, 8:22am

i found the manifest from the project file but it looks like theres already and android:export “true” right above the intent active line.

now im just confused lmao

CriticalMovement · January 21, 2022, 12:03pm

You are correct, however you need to declare ir every time you use an intent.
This one is a seperate intent as the one above in the manifest, and only works for the bit between <receiver ...more coding...> and </receiver>

Alexwweraw1 · January 22, 2022, 2:06am

did you find a solution?

tstrongvfx · January 25, 2022, 9:40pm

I have yet to find a fix for this… Has anyone found a solution any solution would be a major help. Still Can not up load any android files