The APK file does not exist on disk

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When I am trying debug application on Android Studio gives this log output        The APK file    Users MyApplicationName app build outputs apk app-debug apk does not   exist on disk    I restarted Android Studio  but I can t solve this problem   How can I solve it    Thank you

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Make sure that in the path generated in your logs -in your case:

/Users/MyApplicationName/app/build/outputs/apk/app-debug.apk

folder "outputs" indeed has an "apk" folder.

That was my problem, if it's not there, you will need to run the "assembleRelease" task in gradle by following the below screenshot;

Then the folder will be generated.

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First remove cleaner by going to edit configuration  It may be cleaning the build after building the apk   Click on edit from set run debug then click on gradle list select the clean project item and then click on - top 2nd from left

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assemble Variant  would generate the APK for you on disk although it should not be necessary to use it to debug the app  Run the following command in the root directory of the project      gradlew clean build assemble Variant   GL

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In my case  executing  Sync Project with Gradle Files  helped  Neither restarting Andoid Studio nor clearing the cache did anything

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Sync  Clean  Rebuild and Invalidate Cache and Restart None of them worked for me  I have deleted the APK and output json files in the release folder and debug folder and then tried sync  clean  and build  then it worked fine  OR simply Delete folder which has the apk and output json file  in case of debug  release

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Solved in may of 2018 with the new Android Studio 3 1  Delete the  gradle   idea and build directories inside your app folder  Then try to run it again and you won t see the error

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Using Android Studio 2 2 1  I clicked the Sync Project with Gradle Files option  from the dropdown at the top  Tools Android  Similar  to an answer posted above  see below for a screenshot of how to get to this option

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Make sure that there is Grading-aware Make in Run Debugging configurations    before launch  section

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In Android Studio 3 1 1 select File   Sync Project with Gradle Files    In Android Studio 3  select File   Synchronize    Then run your project again

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I change build gradle file a litle info and click  Sync Now  just ok

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I also got that issue  after cleaning the build  For me solution was I just sync the gradle and it worked for me

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In my case the problem was that debugging configuration become invalid somehow  even that the test method name  class or package has not changed   I deleted the configurations from Run- Edit Configurations  at here     Android studio will create a new one automatically

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For Unix like users  Linux MacOs X   instead of removing    gradle caches   in command line do      cd path to you project   touch build gradle   Then ask Android Studio to build APK  it will reset gradle cache itself

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The problem for me was that somehow it could really not find the apk  while the apk exists   The APK file  Users Paul AndroidStudioProjects android-tv-launcher ui build outputs apk nameofapk apk does not exist on disk  Error while Installing APK   All I had to do  was right click on the apk-copy relative path  and just  adb install -r  lt paste of relative path gt    And the apk was installed and good to go  This issue happened on OSX for me

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Faced the same issue with gradle 1 5  I had to clean the build files      Build -  Clean project   And build an APK to force the full compilation and sync of the gradle files      Build -  Build APK   I still don t know why or how it happened tho

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Remove the directory    gradle caches   It s OK to do this while Android Studio is opened   Refer pm installing wrong package name  Press  Sync project with Gradle files  icon on Android Studio Run the project and the remote path will be correct   Refer answer   Android Studio gets package name wrong when running  apk

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I ve solved building an apk using the Build option from the top window and Build APK  No need to do something weird

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Click this option to solve the error

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I tried all of these things and none of them worked  I ended up having to do a couple of these things are the same time  Very frustrating that it took this much time   The problem I had was related to running my unit tests following the upgrade to AS 3 1   Here is what I did    1   Run   Edit Configurations   Select Tests     2   Add options to  Gradle-aware Make  3   Select check box  Skip installation if ADK has not changed  on Misc tab  Good luck

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Nothing above helped me  but I figured this out by switching to another flavor in the Build Tools panel and then switching back to the needed one

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The year is 2018  Android Studio version is 3 2 0 alpha3 and we still get this problem  As none of the above worked for me  here is my 2 cents   Every time this happens I just generate the apk from command line   gradlew assembleDebug   UPDATE  Deleting the folder  AndroidStudio version  and losing all your preferences and caches    seems to solve the problem

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My problem was including minutes in the file name - it looked for appname debug 0 9 0 1 170214 2216 apk when the generated file was appname debug 0 9 0 1 170214 2217 apk so the output filename code  nabbed from elsewhere  was clearly being called from two different points in the build   applicationVariants all   variant - gt          variant outputs each   output - gt              def project    appname              def SEP                     def flavor   variant productFlavors 0  name             def buildType   variant variantData variantConfiguration buildType name             def version   variant versionName             def date   new Date                def formattedDate   date format  yyMMdd HHmm                def newApkName   project   SEP     flavor      SEP   buildType   SEP   version   SEP   formattedDate     apk               output outputFile   new File output outputFile parent  newApkName

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i solved this app by doing    First Build -   Build Apk s  Run the app now   if it not worked do Clean and build the project and then do again 1  amp  2

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in my case  just      View   Tool Windows   Gradle   right click  project    Refresh Gradle Project

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If you tried all the above answers and it didn t work try to disable  Instant Run  feature  This one helped me after all attempts    File -  Settings -  Build  Execution  Deployment -  Instant Run -  Uncheck checkbox there

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Solved this issue by updating the Android SDK-Build Tools

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if you are using Linux  try setting write permission to the app build folder

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1  This problem occure due to apk file  if your apk file          output apk debug apk  not generated in this format         2  you should use always in gradle file        buildTypes               release                   minifyEnabled false                 proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile  proguard-android txt     proguard-rules pro

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Make sure that you don t have apostrophe or  amp  in your path

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i had the same problem  it was due to false name in the path  there was a special Character in the path like this  C  User My App Projekte-Tablet amp Handy i deleted the   amp   character and it worked well

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modify the file build gradle app directory   in fact you should not change this file   only by this to get sync tips then sync project

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Build ---  Build APK s  and be sure it works

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If you just want to know the conclusion  please go to the last section   Thanks   Usually when building project fails  some common tricks you could try    Build -  Clean Project Check Build Variants Restart Android Studio  as you mentioned    But to be more specific to your problem - when Android Studio could not find the APK file on disk   It means that Android Studio has actually successfully built the project  and also generated the APK  however  for some reason  Android Studio is not able to find the file   In this case  please check the printed directory according to the log   It s helpful   For example   With Android Studio 2 0 Preview  build 143 2443734     Checkout to a specific commit  so that it s detached from head   git checkout  commit hash  Run project Android Studio tells  The APK file  Users MyApplicationName app build outputs apk app-debug-HEAD apk does not exist on disk Go to the directory  there is a file actually named  app-debug- HEAD apk  with an extra parenthesis  Run git branch    HEAD detached at 1a2bfff    So here you could see  due to my gradle build script s mistake  file naming is somehow wrong   Above example is just one scenario which could lead to the same issue  but not necessary to be the same root cause as yours   As a result  I strongly recommend you to check the directory  to find the difference   and check your build gradle script  you may change the apk name there  something like below    applicationVariants all   variant - gt          variant outputs each   output - gt              def newFileName    whatever you want to name it               def apk   output outputFile              output outputFile   new File apk parentFile  newFileName

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In my case  I was using a special character in my app file path  I closed the Android Studio and removed the   character from my app file path  Everything worked fine when I reopned the project

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File -  Invalidate Caches   Restart

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If you are facing this issue after the update to Android Studio V 3 1 then try the below   I was facing this same problem when I updated to Android Studio 3 1  All other solutions I found here were quite manual because you have to clean and rebuild every time  that is not good at all  But thanks to Iman Marashi s answer here I was able to solve it   Go to Run -  Edit Configurations     Make sure you have a  Gradle-aware Make  on the Before launch section     To add it click the   sign and select Gradle-aware Make and a popup will appear  just leave the text field empty and click OK and OK

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I witnessed a similar issue usually when I m switching git branches  For me shutting down Android Studio rm -rfv   Library Caches AndroidStudio  and restart Android Studio is the ticket

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I got it to work by    Closing the project From the Android Studio Welcome Window  or File   New   click on Import Project    I guess that forced it to reinstall the APK  and now everything is running fine

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My problem is that I was appending the version number to the APK   Changing the version number and re-syncing Gradle fixed the problem for me     def appendVersionNameVersionCode variant  defaultConfig        variant outputs each   output - gt          if  output zipAlign                def file   output outputFile             def removeApp   file name replace  app-                   def removeType   removeApp replace  -release                   def fileName   removeType replace   apk         defaultConfig versionName     apk               output outputFile   new File file parent  fileName                     def file   output packageApplication outputFile         def removeApp   file name replace  app-               def removeType   removeApp replace  -release               def fileName   removeType replace   apk         defaultConfig versionName     apk           output packageApplication outputFile   new File file parent  fileName

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The button is called  Sync Project with Gradle Files  and it looks alike      always need to click it  when updating the version number  which is resulting in another APK filename  unless the filename has not changed  installing the package always works  which hints for  that the filename is being cached   The equivalent Gradle CLI option appears to be --recompile-scripts    see Appendix D  Gradle Command Line

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Go to Build option on the top bar of android studio create  Build APK s    once build has created  open the folder where it has available app build outputs apk  then close the folder  that s all    then try to install the app

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