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Android

Posted by Edward Hewitt
Edward Hewitt
Courses Plus Student 700 Points

Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED] - Can't run app in the emulator!

This shows when I launch my emulator. The emulator doesn't run the app, it goes to the home screen.

Here is the full error:

pkg: /data/local/tmp/PocketFun.funfacts Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED]

1 Answer

Leonardo Vidal
Leonardo Vidal
14,603 Points

Hi ! take a look on this post Someone had the same problem that you have, try the solutions posted there

Edward Hewitt
Edward Hewitt
Courses Plus Student 700 Points

Thanks, I saw that post but the Geny emulator confused me as I wanted to use the in-built one that comes with Android Studio. I managed to fix it by following that post and changing my package name to lower case. Had no idea it had to be lower case! Thanks for the help