Getting error The package appears to be corrupt while installing apk file

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I am having a weird problem I got this error after I updated Android Studio from 2 3 3 to 3 0  The problem is when I try to install apk file it says  App not installed  The package appears to be corrupt   I have tried generating apk in both debug and release version and tried to install but whenever I install apk it show the same message    When I run the android project from android studio it is working  May be the gradle problem but couldn t fix it  Please help

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In my case  the target phone had the app already installed  but in a  disabled  state   So the user thought it was already uninstalled  but it wasn t   I went to the main app list  clicked on the  disabled  app  uninstalled it  and then the APK would go on

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This is weird  I don t know why this was happening with me while generating signed apk but below steps worked for me    Go to file and select invalidate caches restarts After that go to build select clean project And then select Rebuild project   That s it

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Running a direct build APK will work  But make sure you uninstall any previously installed package of the same name

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As I got this case at my own and the answers here didn t help me  my situation was because of I downgraded the targetSdkVersion in gradle app module file from 24 to 22 for some reason  and apparently the apk doesn t accept another one with downgraded targetSdkVersion to be installed over it   So  once I changed it back to 24 the error disappeared and app installed correctly

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None of the answer is working for me    As the error message is package corrupt   I will have to run   adb uninstall  lt package name gt  Run app again   use adb install

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After searching a lot I found a solution   Go to Build-  Build Apk s    After creating apk you will see a dialog as below     Click on locate and install it in your phone  Enjoy

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In my case by making build  from Build  Build apks   it worked

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In my case  If you receive this error while updating your application  It may be because of the target SDK version  In such case you will receive this error on logs    Package com android myapp new target SDK 22 doesn t support runtime permissions but the old target SDK 23 does   This is because your previous aplication was build with a higher version of sdk  If your new app was build with 22 and your installed application was build with 23  you will get The package appears to be corrupt error on update

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When you are releasing signed apk   please make sure you tick both v1 and v2 in signature versions  See below screenshot for more info

[android] Getting error "The package appears to be corrupt" while installing apk file

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