Does the blacklist work in UE4?

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I created a sample project as an empty BP(without starter contents) for mobile phones…
When the empty project is packaged and deployed into a Android Phone,
the app size is over 160Mb(according to the App manager in the phone, the apk file in PC was about 41Mb).
To reduce the size of the App, the followings are used

  • disable Plugins
  • compress package
  • exclude editor …
  • blacklist files…

But there is little change in the App size (still over 160Mb), the files & folders (which are listed in the blacklist files) still are in the app folder on the Android phone.
I put the following blacklist files in the folders: [Project]/Build/Android, [Project]/Build/Android_ETC2, Project]/Build/Android_ATC respectively.

PakBlackList-Development.txt
PakBlackList-Shipping.txt
PakBlackList-Debug.txt

with the lists to exclude:
…/…/…/Engine/Content/EngineDamageTypes/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/EngineDebugMaterials/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/EngineMaterials/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/EngineMeshes/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/EngineResources/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/EngineSounds/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/Functions/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/Maps/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/MobileResources/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/Tutorial/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/Slate/
…/…/…/Engine/Content/SlateDebug/
…/…/…/Engine/Plugins/Runtime/LeapMotionController/
./…/…/Engine/Content/EngineMaterials/DefaultBloomKernel.uasset
…/…/…/Engine/Content/EngineMaterials/DefaultBloomKernel.uexp

Does the blacklist work in UE4.18?
Is the folder location for blacklists wrong?
(I unckecked the option of Bloom in project settings, but it didn’t work)

Is there a good tutorial for packaging a sample project into an Android Phone and checking the size?
(Please help me~)

Regards

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I use example from TappyChicken project and it works well.

Here is PakBlacklist-Shipping.txt sample:

../../../Engine/Content/EditorMeshes/ColorCalibrator/
../../../Engine/Content/EngineDebugMaterials/
../../../Engine/Plugins/Runtime/LeapMotionController/
../../../TappyChicken/AssetRegistry.bin

Full path must be [Project]/Build/Android/PakBlacklist-Shipping.txt.

May be you use incorrect file name case (PakBlackList-Shipping.txt instead of PakBlacklist-Shipping.txt).

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Thanks!!!