diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 2954595..61056f2 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 kind: pipeline
 name: build and publish Qt Android-App
 steps:
+- name: submodules
+  image: alpine/git
+  commands:
+  - git submodule update --init --recursive
+  
 - name: build apk
   image: itsblue.dev/plugins/qt-android:5.15.5-1
   settings:
     qmake_arguments: "CONFIG+=release"
     androiddeployqt_arguments: "--android-platform android-31"
+
 - name: publish package
   image: alpine/curl
   commands: