Targeting SDK Android Q results in Failed to finalize session : INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_APK: Failed to extract native libraries, res=-2

Question

Once I switch my target api to 'Q' I cannot install the APK on Android Q Emulator. I get error:

Failed to finalize session : INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_APK: Failed to extract native libraries, res=-2

Android Studio (v3.3.2) recommends I uninstall apk first. I tried uninstalling apk and I still get the same error. App work if I downgrade target api to 28.

Solution 1

This happens because of an issue with zipalign, see - https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37045367. You need to set extractNativeLibs in your Application Tag on AndroidManifest.xml

<application
        android:allowBackup="false"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:extractNativeLibs="true"
...
>

If you are using adb to install the apk try adding -t flag

adb install -t <path-to-apk>

Solution 2

If you want android:extractNativeLibs="false", use zipalign with -p key in order to page align ELFs within ZIP:

zipalign -p 4 app.apk app-aligned.apk

Solution 3

I also got this error in AWS Device Farm. Turns out they have sdk version 21 installed and my minSdkVersion was set to 24. Lowering my minSdkVersion to 21 resolved this. This error was getting returned on trying to install apk on the test device. Hope this helps for anyone else setting up device farm on android.

Comments

[Francis]

same issue on real device (running Q)

[user1159819]

Tried it, does not help

[user1159819]

adb install -t apk-free.apk Performing Streamed Install adb: failed to install apk-free.apk: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_APK: Failed to extract native libraries, res=-2]

[ranjk89]

Try adding the following to defaultConfig in app/build.gradle file ` packagingOptions{ doNotStrip "/armeabi/.so" doNotStrip "/armeabi-v7a/.so" doNotStrip "/x86/.so" } `

[ranjk89]

Also make sure any old version of the apk is uninstalled

[ranjk89]

Can you share relevant extracts from your app/build.gradle and Manifest?

[ranjk89]

Looks like this might be a zipalign issue, can you try setting extractNativeLibs to true instead? - issuetracker.google.com/issues/37045367

[ranjk89]

If my answer helped, I'd appreciate if you can accept it as a solution!

[appapurapu]

With latest gradle version 3.6.0 or greater, android sdk tools 28.0.3 or higher, gradle automatically replacing extractNativeLibs false. So better to use -p option to zipalign commend as like below zipalign -v -p 4 app.apk app-aligned.apk

[Ivan Caravanio]

It did help on my side using Xamarin.Android. The issue appeared after manually adding AndroidX components.

[Gary Klasen]

you deserve a crown! great catch, indeed i am using zipalign and that was the issue.