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Android / AGK Steam Android compile problems.

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Bloodwire
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Posted: 15th Dec 2018 00:19
This used to work a while back. I have tried contacting AppGameKit support, but so far they've been unresponsive. At some point I suspect they broke the AppGameKit export to Android, at least now it isn't working. Here is what I do to reproduce the problem:
- Make a new project Test (screenshot 1)
- Compile and test that it works.
- Choose Export Android and fill out the from (screenshot 2)
- Generate the APK and put it on a web-server at home, where I can download it to my phone.
- Go to the web-server using my Chrome browser on my Huawei P20 pro and download the APK.
- Select install (screenshot 3)
- Get the message that install failed, no other explaination (Screenshot 4)

And help or pointers to resolve this would be appreciated. I have been making apk's for my projects earlier using this exact method, but suddenly (about a month or so ago) it just stopped working. It's not the phone, because I get the same problem when installing on my pads, and older apps that I installed using the same methods still work on my phone.

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blink0k
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Posted: 16th Dec 2018 18:53
It works fine on my sony phone. The first thing i would do is completely uninstall agk (Including deleting the directory in Program Files (x86)) and then reinstall.
If that doesn't work maybe install an older version and see if that works
TomToad
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Posted: 30th Dec 2018 12:00
Maybe the web server you are using has changed and is corrupting the apk? I recently compiled an android app and sent it to my phone via Google drive and it worked fine.

If you wish to give it a try, you can download it from
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VG_EAaM3ptfJSPSLiyOCfYOzZIUIcOok/view?usp=drivesdk
That was compiled with the latest AppGameKit version.
Bloodwire
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Posted: 31st Dec 2018 14:52
I have deleted and reinstalled AGK. I also deleted the data files in my profile folder, that wasn't automatically deleted when I used uninstall. I am using the Steam version of AppGameKit, so I can't downgrade it and it automatically upgrades to the latest version.
Bloodwire
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2019 22:47
After spending way to much time on this problem I think I have found the solution. What ruined things was the simple fact that I was compiling the .apk to a network shared disk. It's a samba shared disk which I use for a lot of things and usually there is no problems with this, but apparently the compile function somehow manages to mangle the apk, maybe there is a file lock, race-condition or something like that. Network disks are slower and if the compile sessions started something before completely writing previous stage it could result in a bad apk. Anyway, when I pointed the apk destination to my SSD, this and the rest of my projects compiles and runs without problems on my phone and pads.

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