Augmented Reality crashing on Android

I have opened the AR template and made no changes to the template at all. When I get the app packaged and installed on the device (Samsung S8) the app crashes on the Unreal logo and will not open.

I have had trouble compiling with Gradle but when using Ant it works fine. Other Android Apps build and open fine, just the AR does not work. I have ARCore installed on my phone and have the plugins configured in the project.

This seems to be a common problem for people but no straight forward answer seems apparent. Is there a problem with AR template?

Hello, I have the exact same problem:

The app crashes on android either instantly or shortly after the splash screen is shown:

  1. I have tried various versions: 4.20-4.22. Note that 4.19 does work for me! But the problem is the AR Core plugin in there is a really early one, there is no image recognition (augmented images) for example.
  2. I have tried various Samsung devices (S7 and Tab S3) the same result.
  3. I tried reinstalling NV pack, nothing
  4. Tried the UE4 source version forked by Google that is on their github repo, same result.

By the way I also could not deploy with Gradle, it keeps moaning about not having accepted all SDK licences, which is not true. I also used Ant.

I obtained the logcat and it says "UnsatisfiedLinkError: dlopen failed: library “libarcore_sdk_c.so” not found.

Have you checked your logs?

I have wasted 10 hours looking for a solution, would be pretty neat if somebody had an idea.

Have a look at:

I had the same problem. I found that if you have Unreal Studio plug in activated can get trouble on android package.
Worked for me.

Your workaround still works on 4.22, thanks!