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Android port

Justin Jacobs edited this page Nov 12, 2023 · 31 revisions

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Installing game data

Flare's Android port is fully functional, but has one major caveat: the game data must be manually installed. Attempting to launch Flare without any game data will pop up an error that displays two paths where Flare is looking for the data. We're interested in the first path, so make a note of it.

NOTE: The game will initially try to use Android/data/org.flare.app/files/ on your device's internal storage. If you can't write to this directory (common for newer versions of Android), create a Flare directory on your device's internal storage and launch the game. It will create the mods subdirectory that you can then copy the data to. Future versions of the engine will automatically create and use the Flare directory (see https://github.com/flareteam/flare-engine/issues/1870).

To acquire the game data, we'll use the Windows release:

Flare 1.14 for Windows zip bundle (141 MB)

Once you've extracted the contents of the Windows zip, copy the contents of the mods/ directory to the previously mentioned directory. If done correctly, Flare should now be able to launch without error.

Log file

If you encounter any issues, the log file can be located at ../config/flare_log.txt relative to the mods/ directory. So if you copied to mods to /sdcard/Flare/mods/, then the log file will be located at /sdcard/Flare/config/flare_log.txt.