Third-Party Tutorials: Android Standalone Mode Deployment
On-Click Unreal Engine 5.7 Android Packaging & APK Build Tutorial | Meta Quest & HTC VIVE Standalone
This tutorial provides a complete, streamlined guide to packaging and deploying Unreal Engine 5.7 projects to Android devices in standalone mode, with full support for Meta Quest and HTC VIVE headsets. Viewers learn how to correctly install and configure every required component, including Android Studio, SDK, NDK, JDK, and Visual Studio, using either a manual setup, or an open-source one-click PowerShell installer featured in the video.
The tutorial walks through creating a fresh Unreal Engine VR Template project, configuring Android project settings, enabling ADB device debugging, and generating a working APK using the updated Project Launcher workflow in UE 5.7. It also covers how to integrate the Meta XR and HTC VIVE OpenXR plugins to ensure proper VR recognition and hand-tracking functionality on each platform.
By the end, developers understand how to go from a blank project to a fully packaged and deployable Android APK, with functioning VR, correct device targeting, and reliable deployment pipelines on both Meta Quest and HTC VIVE standalone headsets.
Build & Deploy Unreal Engine 5.5 Projects APK to Android & Meta Quest 3S/3/Pro/2 in Standalone Mode
This video will guide you through the process of building and deploying an Unreal Engine 5.5 project (or any version newer than 4.24) to Android Standalone Mode for Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 devices. The steps outlined here should also apply to other Android-based VR headsets.
It will show you where and how to download and install the necessary prerequisites, such as the Android SDK, NDK, Java Development Kit (JDK), and Microsoft Visual Studio. Next, it will configure both the development environment and Unreal Engine for a successful build. Finally, it will walk you through deploying your project to your VR headset and troubleshooting common errors to ensure a smooth experience.
Unreal Engine OpenXR Hand-Tracking on Android with Meta XR (Quest 3S/3/Pro/2) and HTC VIVE OpenXR (Focus Vision/XR Elite/Focus 3) Plugins
The OpenXR hand-tracking provided by Epic won't work out of the box on Android when projects are deployed in standalone mode to HMDs such as Meta Quest or HTC VIVE devices.
In this tutorial you'll learn how to deploy your Unreal Engine projects to Android with functional hand-tracking on the following head-mounted displays:
- Meta Quest 3S
- Meta Quest 3
- Meta Quest Pro
- Meta Quest 2
- HTC VIVE Focus Vision
- HTC VIVE XR Elite
- HTC VIVE Focus 3