Android Settings

The official name of the product (same as the name you use on the Play Store website).

The application name displayed for end users (app_name).

If this field is left blank, the engine will use the project name.

Preferred install location for the application.

You can choose from the following options:

• Internal Only: Install your app only on internal device storage.
• Prefer External: Install your app on external storage when available.
• Auto: Internal storage is preferred over external, unless the internal storage is low on space.

Defines whether the data should be placed into the .apk file instead of a separate .obb file.

If enabled, UnrealGame files will be placed in ExternalFilesDir which is removed on uninstall.

You should also enable this if you need to save your game progress without requesting runtime WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission in Android API 23+.

If enabled, log files will always be placed in a publicly available directory (either /sdcard/Android or /sdcard/UnrealGame).

You may require WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission if you do not use the ExternalFilesDir checkbox in Android API 23+.

The permitted orientation of the application on the device.

You can choose from the following options:

• Portrait: Portrait orientation (the display is taller than it is wide).
• Reverse Portrait: Portrait orientation, rotated 180 degrees.
• Sensor Portrait: Use either portrait or reverse portrait orientation, where supported by the device, based on the device orientation sensor.
• Landscape: Landscape orientation (the display is wider than it is tall).
• Reverse Landscape: Landscape orientation, rotated 180 degrees.
• Sensor Landscape: Use either landscape or reverse landscape orientation, based on the device orientation sensor.
• Sensor: Use any orientation the device normally supports, based on the device orientation sensor.
• Full Sensor: Use any orientation (including ones the device wouldn't choose in Sensor mode), based on the device orientation sensor.

Maximum supported aspect ratio (width / height).

Android will automatically letterbox applications on devices with bigger aspect ratio.

Defines whether the scheduled local notification should be restored on reboot.

This will add a receiver for boot complete and a permission to the manifest.

If enabled, you can edit the text field directly.

If disabled, tapping the in-app text field will open the additional text field for editing.

The preferred depth buffer bitcount for Android.

You can choose from the following options:

• Default
• 16-bit
• 24-bit
• 32-bit

When building for MinSDKVersion >= 23, Gradle will leave native libs uncompressed in the .apk.

This option may be helpful for builds that are not intended to be distributed via Google Play.

This shows whether the project is configured for the Android platform.

To users from 4.6 or earlier: The engine now generates an AndroidManifest.xml file when building, so if you have customized your .xml file, you will need to put all your changes into the below settings. Note that the engine doesn't make changes to your AndroidManifest.xml that is in your project directory.

The .xml file, generated by the engine, is placed in the (YourProjectName)\Intermediate\Android\APK folder.

Additionally, the engine no longer uses SigningConfig.xml, the settings are now set in the Distribution Signing section.

Whether to render to an offscreen surface instead of rendering to backbuffer directly on Android OpenGL platform.

Enable this option if you want to support UMG background blur on Android OpenGL.

Defines whether to support ARM64 CPU architecture.

Defines whether to detect Vulkan device support by default if the project is packaged with Vulkan support.

If disabled, the -detectvulkan command line will enable Vulkan detection.

Any extra settings for the section (an optional file, <Project>/Build/Android/ManifestApplicationAdditions.txt, will also be included).

Add a newline character (\n) to separate lines.

Any extra setting for the main section (an optional file, <Project>/Build/Android/ManifestApplicationActivityAdditions.txt, will also be included).

Add newline character (\n) to separate lines.

Any extra permissions your app needs (for example, 'android.permission.INTERNET').

An optional file, <Project>/Build/Android/ManifestRequirementsAdditions.txt, will also be included, or an optional file, <Project>/Build/Android/ManifestRequirementsOverride.txt, will replace the entire Requirements section.

Build the shipping config with hidden visibility by default.

This results in a smaller .so file, but will also remove symbols used to display call stack dumps.

Whick NDK to compile with (a specific version or 'latest' for latest version on disk).

This is the password that you specified for the keystore when running (either with -storepass or by typing it in).

This is the password for the key that you may have specified with keytool, if it's different from the keystore password.

Leave blank to use same password as Keystore.

Enabling this adds GET_ACCOUNTS to the app manifest and requires user permission.

This is required to reset achievements.

The sender ID, obtained from Firebase Console. Associate this with your app in Google Player Developer Console.

Leave this field blank to disable it.

Enabling this includes the AdMob SDK and will be detected by Google Play Console on APK upload.

Disable if you don't need ads to remove warnings.

If enabled, this will disable the security.perf_harden flag on the Android device when launching or installing your app via the generated batch file.

Disabling security.perf_harden is necessary for HWCPipe to be able to report performance counters on Mali devices.

Several Android graphics debuggers require configuration changes to be made to your application in order to operate.

Choosing an option from this menu will configure your project to work with that graphics debugger.

You can choose from the following options:

• None
• Mali Graphics Debugger
• Adreno Profiler

Allows accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope event handling.

Disabling this may improve performance.

Android audio encoding options.

You can choose from the following options:

• Default: Selects the default encoder.
• Ogg Vorbis: Selects the OGG Vorbis encoding.
• ADCPM: Selects ADCPM lossless encoding.

The amount of audio to compute each callback block.

Lower values decrease latency but may increase CPU cost.

The number of buffers to keep enqueued.

More buffers increase latency, but can compensate for variable compute availability in audio callbacks on some platforms.

The maximum number of channels (voices) to limit for this platform.

If you specify Max Channels both here and in your global audio quality settings, your application will use the smaller of the two values.

If this is set to 0, Unreal Engine will use all the channels available.

The number of workers to use to compute source audio.

This only uses up to the maximum number of sources (Max Channels value) and evenly divides sources to each source worker.

Defines which of the currently enabled spatialization plugins to use.

If you can't find a spatialization plugin you want to use in the dropdown menu, make sure its plugin is enabled (from the main menu, go to Edit > Plugins).

You can choose from the following options:

• Built-In Spatialization
• Resonance Audio
• Other

Defines which of the currently enabled reverb plugins to use.

If you can't find a reverb plugin you want to use in the dropdown menu, make sure its plugin is enabled (from the main menu, go to Edit > Plugins).

You can choose from the following options:

• Built-In Reverb
• Resonance Audio
• Other

Defines which of the currently enabled occlusion plugins to use.

If you can't find an occlusion plugin you want to use in the dropdown menu, make sure its plugin is enabled (from the main menu, go to Edit > Plugins).

You can choose from the following options:

• Built-In Occlusion
• Other

When Override Compression Times is enabled, any sound under this threshold (in seconds) will be fully decompressed on load.

Otherwise, the first chunk of this sound is cached at load and the rest is decompressed in real time.

If this is set to 0, will default to the Sound Group on the relevant Sound Wave.

On this platform, any random nodes on Sound Cues will automatically only preload this number of branches and dispose of any others on load.

This can drastically reduce memory usage.

If this is set to 0, no branches are culled.

Scales all compression qualities when cooking to this platform.

For example, 0.5 will halve all compression qualities, and 1.0 will leave them unchanged.

Determines the maximum amount of memory that should be used for the cache at any given time.

If set low (<= 8 MB), it lowers the size of individual chunks of audio during the cooking.

Priority for the ETC2 texture format when launching on device or packaging using Android_Multi.

The highest priority format supported by the device will be used.

Default value is 0.2.

Priority for the DXT texture format when launching on device or packaging using Android_Multi.

The highest priority format supported by the device will be used.

Default value is 0.6.

Priority for the ASTC texture format when launching on device or packaging using Android_Multi.

The highest priority format supported by the device will be used.

Default value is 0.9.

Defines whether to enable LOD streaming for landscape visual meshes.

Only supported on feature level ES3.1 or above.