The Best Native Application Development Tools for Android

Setting up an Android development environment can be a complex and frustrating experience. NVIDIA CodeWorks for Android simplifies this for all Android developers with a single installer that manages this complexity for you.

NVIDIA CodeWorks for Android is a professional grade solution providing a comprehensive set of GPU and CPU tools with debugging, profiling and system trace capabilities and accompanying SDKs and libraries for Android development - not only on Tegra powered devices. NVIDIA CodeWorks for Android installs all software tools required to develop for the latest SHIELD Android OS and reduces the complex process of configuring an Android development system down to a single click

This Quick Start Guide will walk you through all of the essentials for setting up Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) for Android game development, including the following topics: Setting up your test device and computer for Android game development. Configuring new projects for mobile development. Setting up Unreal Editor for packaging Android builds. Download Unreal Engine 3D Demo apk 1.0 for Android. This is a demo of a 3D Side Scroll Application.

CodeWorks for Android is offered free of charge, but requires NVIDIA Registered Developer Program membership.

This suite of developer tools will configure a development environment that will work with most Android devices (Compatible devices). CodeWorks for Android is available for Windows, OSX, Ubuntu, Linux 64-bit platforms.

'With functionality that extends beyond Tegra, NVIDIA CodeWorks for Android is a valuable part of EA's mobile game development tools. CodeWorks for Android helps us bring players incredible mobile experiences on a variety of Android devices and chipsets,'

Lewis Strudwick, Studio Technology Director at EA Melbourne

'Epic's use of Nsight Tegra has been crucial for the efficient development of Unreal Engine 4's Android features. We're delighted to see CodeWorks for Android extend support beyond Tegra so Unreal Engine developers can remain in their favorite authoring tools during all development scenarios. NVIDIA's tool advancements are refining Android to a level matching game console development.'

Niklas Smedberg, Senior Graphics Programmer at Epic Games

Release (1R8)

New to this release are updated developer tools, the latest Android NDK, SDK, and Build/Platform Tools for Android development.

Highlights:

Nsight Tegra 3.6, Visual Studio Edition
- Support for Android NDK64 r18b
- Support for API 28
- Various performance improvements and bug fixes
Nsight Graphics 2019.3
- Tegra Graphics Debugger is now Nsight Graphics
- Visit the product page for more info
Nsight Systems 2019.4
- NVIDIA System Profiler is now Nsight System
- Visit the product page for more info

Support

To provide feedback, request additional features or report support issues, please use the NVIDIA Developer Forums.

Features

Android Development:

Android SDK r26.1.1
Android API 28
Android NDK64 r18b
Android Build Tools r28.03
Android Platform Tools r28.0.3
Android Support Library r23.2.1
Android Support Repository Library r47
Google USB Driver r11
JDK 1.8.0_77 or OpenJDK 8
Gradle 4.4.1

GameWorks Libraries and Tools:

Compatible Devices

Android ABI (ARM v7, ARM v8, x86, x64) support, including but not limited to:

NVIDIA® SHIELD™ Android TV Support

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems:

Ue4 Android

Windows 7/10 (64-bit)
Mac OS X 10.14
Ubuntu Linux x64 (v16.04 and v18.04)

Developer Webinars

Instructional Videos and Webinars can be found here.

To access older versions of CodeWorks for Android (formerly AndroidWorks/Tegra Android Development Pack), please visit CodeWorks for Android Archive.

Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) enables you to use Android Studio to debug the C++ and Java code that is used in your UE4 project. In the following how-to, we will take a look at getting Android Studio set up so that it can be used to debug your UE4 Android projects.

Unreal Engine Android Setup

Steps

In the following section, we will go over how to download and set setup Android Studio so that it will work with a UE4 project.

First, download and install Android Studio version 3.0.1 using the following link:
Next, build the apk that you want to debug and then deploy it to your Android device you will be using for debugging.
Open up the Android Studio Launcher and from the displayed options, select the Open an existing Android Studio Project.
From the Open File or Project menu, navigate to C:YourProjectNameIntermediateAndroidAPKGradle and select the Gradle directory, then press the OK button.
Once Android Studio is open, go to the Run Menu and select the Edit Configurations option.
Click on the Debugger tab and set the debug type to Dual.
Next, go to the LLDB Startup Command tab, press plus icon (+) and then input the following line, pressing the OK button to complete the process.
Note that TEXT('string') should be used instead of L('string') in your C++ code.
Make sure to press the Enter key or the command will not take.
Now, open up any of your project's .cpp files and add breakpoints to items you want to debug.
From the main menu, select Run >Debug 'app-app'.
When the Select Deployment Type windows is displayed, select your device from the list and press the OK button.

End Result

Once all of that has been completed, wait for the debugger to attach to your Android Device.

Unreal Engine Mobile Games

Depending on the size of your project, it could take some time for the debugger to attach. This also does not install the data on the device if you don't use the Package data inside APK option. Doing so will make the redeploying for debugging slower since the APK will be larger. Another option is to first do a Launch on in the editor before using Android Studio for debugging to install the current level on the device. Alternatively, you can package and install the OBB on the device if you need more than the current level data.

Unreal Engine For Android Download