The .apk file does not exist on disk but it does

Question

Whenever I debug application, error appears that ... .apk file does not exist on a disk and app doesn't launch.

After updating Android Studio, this error started happening.

I tried different solutions after a lot of searching. This includes:

Downgrading Android Studio (it starts giving plugins error and I don't want not to be able to use new Android Studio)
Tried this solution with no luck.
This catering different problem but with possible solution of my problem. It didn't work too.
Referred to the issue

Any help will be appreciated.

It is very unclear where is is about. Please first tell what the problem is. — greenapps, Sep 29 '16 at 09:01
The problem is that error I wrote. Android Studio is not debugging application, it always says the error i.e. `.apk file does not exist on disk`. — Waqas Ahmed Ansari, Sep 29 '16 at 09:06
And why dont you tell at wich moment or action you get that error? — greenapps, Sep 29 '16 at 09:15
It's written at the first line, "whenever I debug the application". After building the gradle. When it's near to launch app on mobile — Waqas Ahmed Ansari, Sep 29 '16 at 09:40

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

If you have something like this in your build.gradle file:

applicationVariants.all { variant ->
    variant.outputs.each { output ->
         output.outputFile = new File(output.outputFile.parent, baseFilename + defaultConfig.versionCode + "_" + defaultConfig.versionName + "_" + getDate() + ".apk")
    }
}

And this

def getDate() {
    def date = new Date()
    def formattedDate = date.format('dd.MM.yyyy')
    return formattedDate
}

You should remove getDate() from output to fix your problem. Take a look at this post also.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '17 at 13:30

2

Check your path to your apk. Might there be some special characters in folder names. This also cause the adb to through this error.

answered Jan 04 '17 at 13:30

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