Once the engine is started and the plugin is built, let’s go in “Settings”, then “Plugins”: under the “Mobile” category (at the end) we must see the “AndroidAPITemplate” plugin. Now, we need to start (or restart) the engine so it can build the plugin.
Now, we have a “Plugins/AndroidAPITemplate” folder inside the game directory. Just download this archive, create a “Plugins” directory next to your “Content” directory and unzip the archive inside this “Plugins” Directory. Unreal Engine, at least in its current version, doesn’t offer a template for a Android plugin. Let’s not lose time! We want to make this plugin quickly (we only have ten minutes if you look at the title of this article), so we will use a template for an Android plugin. Fortunately, it’s really easy (if we follow this guide)! It’s easier if you’re familiar with the plugin system of UE4, but even if you’re not, this tutorial should be accessible (you should be confident with Android and Java development though). Let’s say we’re developing a game for mobile and we want to use one of the device functionalities, like reading the data from the light sensor, get the data from the contacts, or send a SMS: UE4 doesn’t provide an API for this, so we have no choice, we have to make this API ourselves.
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