Failure INSTALL FAILED INVALID APK

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When I click to run a project I just created in Android Studio 0 2 10 and select my Android  connected by USB with debug by USB on  I get this error   Waiting for device  Target device  0123456789ABCDEF Uploading file     local path   Users Rui AndroidStudioProjects FirstAppProject FirstApp build apk FirstApp-debug-unaligned apk     remote path   data local tmp rui firstapp Installing rui firstapp DEVICE SHELL COMMAND  pm install -r   data local tmp rui firstapp  pkg   data local tmp rui firstapp Failure  INSTALL FAILED INVALID APK    Any Idea of what it might be

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It looks like having a number after the dot was the culprit.

I had the same issue with the following applicationId

org.tony.stark.125jarvis

Changing it to

org.tony.stark.jarvis

I was able to install the app to the android devices.

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Just remove old APK android app build outputs apk debug app-debug apk in the folder   that s all  enjoy your coding

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I tried most above offered solutions  the simple ones  not those offering chmod and altering internal libraries  and none of them work  Eventually what worked for me was   Clean Project  -   Rebuild Project  -  changed the app versionName in the build gradle app module -  Sync Gradle -  Run the app on the device

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When I experienced this issue  what fixed it for me was making sure that the AndroidManifest xml package name was the same as the build grade applicationId

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Uninstall the previous version if installed already and try again It might help

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The cause of this problem for me was having the wrong build variant selected for one of my app s modules  From the  Build Variants  tool  I selected the module variant which matched the app module  and it fixed the issue for me

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Don t know what exactly causes the issue  A had several schemes  all could be build and install all of them and once  one didn t want  after what actions - don t know   In all unknown situations I execute  npm run mac-reinstall where in package json in scripts section   mac-reinstall    rm -rf -v package-lock json ios build ios Podfile lock android  gradle android build android app build node modules  amp  amp  npm i  amp  amp  cd ios   amp  amp  rm -rf Pods   amp  amp  pod install  amp  amp  cd      You can try to leave only Android s part from the script

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I just had same error  I had year 2015 in app id  I replaced 2015 by fifteen and that solved it   Also  if you use Android Studio  you can try  Tools   Android   Synch Project with Gradle Files

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If you have access to the device console  adb shell   then change permissions of following    chmod 777  data  chmod 777  data local  You might also want to try copying the apk to  data local  in which case  make sure the set the right permissions to the apk also   chmod 777  data local myapk apk You can now attempt an installation by  pm install -r -d  data local myapk apk  note the absolute path

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delete code in AndroidManifest xml   tools replace  android appComponentFactory  android appComponentFactory     it works

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I meet the similar issue  but it auto fixed after i reboot my Ubuntu PC for I install some Ubuntu 12 04 app update which leads to this issue

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I had this issue and none of the above solutions worked for me   For some reason  the permissions weren t set correctly on my  data local tmp directory  only root had rwx   I fixed the issue using ADB  you ll need a rooted device     Connect your phone via USB Launch ADB using adb shell Move to  data local using cd  data local Switch to root mode using su Allow read write execute on tmp directory using chmod 777 tmp Disconnect  restart Android Studio and plug in device again

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I found another reason of this error  If you rooted your device access permissions of  data local tmp may be changed  so adb can t get access to it temp file  Solution is to create  tmp  folder on sdcard and create symlink to it in  data local   via ADB shell or Root Explorer

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If you have multiple modules project with multiple flavors and each flavor has a different applicationId then you have to make sure that all your modules are targeting the same build variant

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I had the same problem but none of the solutions worked for me  The problem was that I had no   separators in my package name   i e  if your package name is my packagename its fine but it can t be just mypackagename Got the hint from this bug report    https   code google com p android issues detail id 55841

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There seems to be multiple reasons for this failure  For me  the issue was that in AndroidManifest file I had referenced a non-existing library only in this particular device  using the  uses-library  tag  After removing the library which this device did not have the apk got installed properly

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I had this problem on android Studio because in my Debug build i ve added version name suffix -DEBUG and the - was the problem   Try to only have letters  numbers and dots on your version names and application ids

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How to solve this issue    Install RootExplorer Create new tmp folder on SD card Long press on tmp folder  and select Link to this folder  last option in menu  Go to  data local  and tap button CREATE LINK from bottom

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i got similar issue once  what i observed was  package name in my Androidmanifest xml was started with one empty space character  like   com example test  instead of  com example test   I removed all such invalid spaces from my manifest file  it solved my problem  Edit 1   -  in package name also cause same issue on some android versions

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I have recently had this problem building a multi-module  multi-apk application  As it turns out  my top level gradle build was modifying the android versionCode  and that was making it out of sync with the manifests in the dynamic feature modules  This took me hours to find the cause  and only minutes to solve   I found that the android studio log itself       idea log     tells me way more about the problem than the IDE did   2020-02-05 22 52 56 206  thread 246    WARN -             com android ddmlib - Failed to commit install session 986623974 with command cmd package install-commit 986623974  Error  INSTALL FAILED INVALID APK   data app vmdl986623974 tmp 1 mytestapp-afat-debug version code 1829 inconsistent with 18290  2020-02-05 22 52 56 206  thread 246    WARN - a run tasks AbstractDeployTask - Install failed  The application could not be installed  INSTALL FAILED INVALID APK The APKs are invalid

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Your package name should include words combined by dots like com example or prashant mydairy      it should work fine now  files  where you must update  ur package name are as below  1 Manifest file 2 Gradle file module appp   applicationId  package name

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This helped in my case   Settings - gt  Apps - gt  Google Play Store - gt  Click  Enable  button

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Navigate to Run Debug Configurations Click Run from the top Tab  gt  Edit Configurations  Module  Select your App Installation Options  Deploy Default APK Ok

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You can get this error if the minSdkVersion in builde gradle is bigger than the device s Android version  In that case you have to modify the minSdkVersion

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If you write android extractNativeLibs  false  in AndroidManifest file  then change it to android extractNativeLibs  true

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I ran into this issue by having mismatched build variants  A Dynamic Delivery module was on the debug variant while the remaining modules were on release  Simply changing the Dynamic Delivery module to release  rebuilding  and installing  fixed the issue

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Force Stop the application in the device settings

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taskAffinity name must have at least one     separator

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I got this issue on a project with Dagger and multiple modules  What worked for me  none of the above worked  was to  1  empty the  gradle folder  2  empty the  idea folder 3  In project gradle properties  mark org gradle caching false 4  Possibly invalidate caches in AS  clean  rebuild  You may be able to get away with just  3  clean then build   EDIT  Lately I ve been able to get around this by restarting AS  then doing a clean  then install again

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By turning off the Instant Run solved my issue  Don t know any explanation till now  After migrating to android studio 3 0 it starts problem like this  Hope this helps someone in future

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I had this issue and none of the above solutions worked for me   The reason is probably root version phone that has available quota or apk install permissions only at the sdcard   I fixed the issue using ADB  you ll need a rooted device     Connect your phone via USB Launch ADB using adb shell Switch to root mode using su create tmp folder in the sdcard  mkdir  sdcard tmp cd  data local create link the the folder in the sdcard  ln -s  sdcard tmp tmp

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For Flutter projects  with VS Code editor  go to the project source folder and delete the  build  folder and start debugging

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I was getting this in Android Studio and all I did to fix it was go to  Build   gt   Clean Project  and it just worked

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I have used the androidquickstart maven archetype and faced the same problem   My package name was an only androidquickstart  According to advices before    I have changed the package to androidquickstart test  then in AndroidManifest xml I have changed package  androidquickstart  to package  androidquickstart test  and correspondingly removed test from other parts of xml  lt activity android name   test HelloAndroidActivity   gt  to  lt activity android name   HelloAndroidActivity   gt   and also fixed package issues in java files  highlighted by the IDE

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If someone is still having issue then Build- Clean Project then Build- Rebuild project finally Sync project with Gradle file

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After a great update  check that the applicationId of the build gradle  Module  app  and the package in AndroidManifest xml are identical  I had the same problem and so I solved it

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I was facing this issue in android studio 3 4  By turning off the Instant Run solved my issue  Don t know any explanation till now   Hope this helps someone in future

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In my case  I get this error Failure  INSTALL FAILED INVALID APK  when I try to install apk with pm install -r -d  sdcard Download foo apk    Since this package already uninstalled by pm uninstall  lt foo package name gt   I try delete  data local tmp  lt foo package name gt  but no luck   I need reboot the android system to fixed   Not sure remove data local tmp  lt foo package name gt  step is necessary or not     UPDATE    It happen again just now  I try do not uninstall since I need to keep the apk inherit sdk 22 permission  so this time I use am force-stop  lt fook package name gt  to stop it first  then retry pm install  it fixed the error

[android] Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_APK]

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