Failure [install_parse_failed_no_certificates] when attempting to install APK to the emulator
AndroidCmdEmulationApkAndroid Problem Overview
I downloaded Myfiles.apk from the internet and I'm trying to install it to my Android emulator.
While installing Myfiles.apk file through the command prompt, I'm getting this error.
I tried following in command prompt
C:\android-sdk\tools> adb -s emulator-5554 install C:\Users\Me\Desktop\MyFiles.apk
How do I install this APK to the emulator correctly?
Android Solutions
Solution 1 - Android
This site
helped me a lot to properly sign the unsigned apk. But,for the last process i.e. for jarsigner
,following command need to be used
jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore my-release-key.keystore my_application.apk alias_name.
Further do look upon this unable to sign zipexception
if you encounter with any zipexception
error . So overall,use following procedure
keytool -genkey -v -keystore debug.keystore -alias android -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 20000
jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore my-release-key.keystore yourapkalign.apk alias_name
zipalign -v 4 yourapk.apk yourapkalign.apk
Now,you can successfully install the apk file.
Solution 2 - Android
It means that the apk you downloaded hasn't been signed with any certificate, debug or otherwise.
You can sign it from the command line, as described here.
Solution 3 - Android
You can use the androiddebugkey
the sign the apk.
The keystore lives in ~/.android
, named debug.keystore
.
Run
keytool -list -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore
To see the debug key, we can see its name is androiddebugkey
Run the following command to sign the apk.
jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore yourapp-release.apk androiddebugkey