Problems running Android project in emulator

I’ve just started some Android development at work. I’ve never developed for Android before so there is a few things that takes some getting used too, and some stuff is quite a bit different from developing for Windows Phone 7. But it’s fun to learn new stuff as allways!

I use Eclipse for development, and one of the few quirks I have run in too so far is the very annoying message of “Could not find YourApp.apk!”. The exact output from in the console is as follows:

Android Launch!
adb is running normally.
Could not find YourApp.apk!

The solution was easy for me, just had to clean the project. If you don’t know how, just open Project in the menu and select the “Clean…” option.

Then choose “Clean all projects” and click OK.

After this hopefully you can just press run and your project will deploy properly again.

Could not find YourApp.apk!
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10 thoughts on “Could not find YourApp.apk!

  • February 21, 2011 at 10:10
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    I had the same very issue, “Could not find xxx.apk!”, but the cleaning the project as you wrote helped.

    Cheers!

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  • March 2, 2011 at 01:20
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    Hi,

    I was having this issue but cleaning the project didn’t seem to work.
    Could you help out please?

    /Stephen

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    • March 16, 2011 at 23:46
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      I’ve noticed Eclipse seems to cache some things as by magic.
      So if you get this problem after cleaning the project just try restarting Eclipse and it will most likely solve the issue for you.

      Good luck,
      Andreas

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  • December 29, 2011 at 02:26
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    You are so wonderful, that solve the problem. Now I can run the project in my Eclipse and get result.

    great!
    Rungreung

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    • December 30, 2011 at 11:54
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      Glad to hear that 🙂

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      • March 22, 2012 at 07:50
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        I too had the same problem, I cleaned and restarted and it works fine now. Thank you so much Andreas.

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        • March 22, 2012 at 23:42
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          Glad to have helped 🙂

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  • April 27, 2016 at 15:51
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    do not make full that not work………………..

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