Putting the project on your Android device

Of course, just having the APK doesn't do much if we can't put it on our actual phone; so, in this section, we will enable our phone to test the game on our device:

1. On your Android device, you'll need to go to your Settings app.
2. From there, scroll down till you get to the Security | Security & fingerprint section or similar, and then tap on it to go into the menu.

3. Inside there, you'll see a section called Unknown sources, which you'll want to enable:

With this enabled, your device can now install the .apk file, but now you will need to move your game over onto the device so that you can install it. The easiest way is to transfer it to your device via USB; we'll do that now.

Note

For those of you who'd rather not use USB, I will sometimes use a cloud storage app, such as Dropbox, to upload my .apk file and then download it from the app and then install that way. There's also another tool called ADB, which can send files to your phone via USB or Wi...