app-debug.apk does not exist on disk. Error while Installing APK

Question

Hello everyone trying to launch my app (which has always worked until today !!!) continues to present this error:

The APK file C:\Users\User\Documents\App 0.0\Dooale\app\build\outputs\apk\debug\app-debug.apk does not exist on disk. Error while Installing APK

I tried to verify on my PC in the indicated path: C: \ Users \ User \ Documents \ App 0.0 \ Dooale \ app \ build \ outputs \ and actually does not exist !!! In outputs there is only log !!! How is it possible? What can I do?

Thank you all

You need to build your app before you can install it. This started happening with me too after most recent android studio update. Click on Build then click on make project and it's done. — Ravinder Bhandari, Apr 11 '18 at 17:01
Yes indeed very good !! so how did you turn it? I've already done Sync Gradle and then Build> Rebuild Project but it did not work !!! — Andrea, Apr 11 '18 at 17:03
sorry mate, but that's all I did and it worked. You can try restarting studio or wait until someone finds a proper solution to your problem. — Ravinder Bhandari, Apr 11 '18 at 17:06

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '18 at 13:00

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I managed to solve these simple steps:

1 - I went to the android studio on Build -> Clean Project After waiting for it to end. 2 - I'm back on Build -> Rebuild Project

3 - I resynchronized with Gradle.

With these simple steps I managed to solve !!!

answered Aug 30 '18 at 13:00

Andrea

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Have you been solving it for half of a year? :) – CoolMind Feb 25 '19 at 08:21
Thanks, this advice works in many scenarious. I tried to invalidate caches and clean a project, but it hadn't helped. After rebuilding the project APK has been built. – CoolMind Feb 25 '19 at 08:24

CoolMind · Answer 2 · 2019-04-08T08:33:05.123

This stupid error wasted a whole day of research.

Recently I have replaced REST library Fuel with Retrofit and added OkHttp logging interceptor with it's Proguard rules. Then I removed interceptor but forgot to remove Proguard rules.

This error appeared in the next day. I couldn't build a project, even reinstalled AS. Then I built an apk with Build > Generate Signed Bundle / APK. There I saw warnings:

AGPBI: {"kind":"warning","text":"Missing class: android.arch.paging.PositionalDataSource","sources":[{}],"tool":"D8"}

AGPBI: {"kind":"warning","text":"The rule -keep public class *extends androidx.versionedparcelable.VersionedParcelable {\n \u003cinit\u003e();\n} uses extends but actually matches implements.","sources":[{}],"tool":"D8"} AGPBI: {"kind":"warning","text":"Type org.conscrypt.Conscrypt was not found, it is required for default or static interface methods desugaring of void okhttp3.internal.platform.ConscryptPlatform.configureSslSocketFactory(javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory)","sources":[{"file":"C:\Users\user\.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\com.squareup.okhttp3\okhttp\3.12.0\b36f4a04584c0fb0d9af2d3401cdff8dacb1ea54\okhttp-3.12.0.jar"}],"tool":"D8"}

Then I removed unnecessary lines from Proguard. See How to resolve D8 warning: D8: Type `org.conscrypt.Conscrypt` was not found.

UPDATE

After several hours a problem disappeared even if I reverted to previous commits. Also it didn't reproduce on another PC. Android Studio is weird.

In order not to rebuild the project every time at every change in code I added this to configuration (see Android Studio not deploying changes to app).

UPDATE 2

I use Retrofit and keep all response files (JSON structures) in one package. I had to add them to proguard-rules.pro:

-keep class com.example.data.network.model.** { *; }

If I remove this line, an application won't compile with message: "AGPBI: {"kind":"warning","text":"Missing class: android.arch.paging.PositionalDataSource","sources":[{}],"tool":"D8"}".

app-debug.apk does not exist on disk. Error while Installing APK

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