Reputation: 1083

Android Studio Stuck on "Installing APK"

Android Studio no longer seems to be detecting when an app has installed on a target device and opened. It gets stuck on "Installing APK" and the progress bar is empty. There are no errors, the apk successfully installs and opens, it's just the IDE is still showing "Installing APK" and it does not automatically connect the debugger. I can manually connect the debugger using the "Attach debugger to Android process button", but this is not ideal.

Can anyone offer any suggestions for what's up and how to resolve it?

Upvotes: 59

Answers (25)

Arun D

Reputation: 2387

For me, the issue was Phone Settings > USB Preferences > Use USB for value was set as "No data transfer".

Worked fine once I set the value as "File Transfer"

Upvotes: 0

Antonio Vazquez

Reputation: 1

For me none of the answers worked, but giorgio79's gave me a hint. What worked for me was removing the second space, where I guess the app stayed even when I removed it from my main profile and prevented it from installing again.

Upvotes: 0

multi cat

Reputation: 41

In my case it was USB configuration settings.

Choose File Transfer option in Developer options -> Default USB configuration

Upvotes: 4

Tarif Chakder

Reputation: 1846

Just reboot your mobile . If not working try reboot your Android studio and mobile.

Upvotes: 1

CelinHC

Reputation: 1984

I'm using Visual Studio Xamarin and the issue was caused by the missing CPU architecture. After checking them, the APK became installable via adb install ...

Upvotes: 0

Devansh Maurya

Reputation: 1012

Turn off Verify apps over USB and Verify bytecode for debuggable apps (might not be available for all devices) in your Developer settings menu. The install time will decrease drastically.

Upvotes: 0

Egalicia

Reputation: 723

When attach my mobile to my PC, the follow menu is showed. I Clicke on it.

In the next section, I had changed from "USB connection" to "Transfer files"

After that adb install works for me.

Upvotes: 2

Mohammad Sommakia

Reputation: 1833

uninstalling the previous installed app worked for me

Upvotes: 0

JaydeepW

Reputation: 3285

Check following in your project

build-gradle plugin version in project level build.gradle file
gradle version in gradle-wrapper.properties file
buildToolsVersion

Upvotes: 0

giorgio79

Reputation: 4189

For me, the top answer "wait for debugger" was completely greyed out.

What worked for me was to look inside "Apps" and I noticed the app was uninstalled, but only for my current user. Clicking uninstall for all users unblocked the installation via Android Studio again.

Upvotes: 0

Brian Boynton

Reputation: 11

My case was similar but for Android Version 10 required having the Verify bytecode of debuggable apps to off.

Final settings were:

USB debugging -> ON
Wait for debugger -> ON
Verify apps over USB -> ON
Verify bytecode of debuggable apps -> OFF

Device: Pixel XL

Upvotes: 0

Cyrus

Reputation: 9415

I had the exact same problem.

what's more, i can not adb shell and adb push files.

I am running an Ubuntu 18.04 VM and test on xiaomi phone 8,9. The problem for me was the USB Compatibility setting for the VM was set to 2.0, it needs to be at least 3.0. To change the setting power down the VM and choose the "Edit virtual machine settings" in the VMPlayer startup menu. Then select the "USB Controller" device and change "USB Compatibility" to USB 3.0. Hope this can help u!

Upvotes: 2

Vadydady

Reputation: 1

In my case i did not make sure that my android studio DSK manager was up to date with the android version that my device was operating on. So when running flutter doctor all seemed well, and i had the latest android version and all on android studio, but as mentioned it was not matching the version for my device i had connected.

Once i added the correct android version (in my case android 6.0) with SDK manager using android studio, it did not get stuck at installing apk.

Upvotes: 0

Hexise

Reputation: 1568

I have this problem recently on my Pixel 2 testing device, latest factory image with Android Studio 3.4, on windows 10.

I have tried all methods mentioned but none of them work. It cost me more than 6 hours to figure it out.

My problem is the USB driver, I am not using the "perfect" USB driver. My driver works in most scenarios and commands but not in every scenario.

You do not need Android Studio to dig into this problem, just using adb.

Please try if you can install apk from adb using following command:

adb install xxxx.apk

If it stuck at "performing streamed install" but never finish, this is the problem.

Please try push a big file(more than 5MB) to your device:

adb push xxxx.apk /storage/emulated/0

In my testing, it stuck at 13%, 16%, etc, but never go on. It seems cannot transfer large files. This is why the installation is pending in my case.

I update the driver to another one, and the problem is fixed. Hope it can solve your problem, too.

Upvotes: 3

Richard Lindhout

Reputation: 2068

Restarting Android studio worked for me

Upvotes: 1

Leo supports Monica Cellio

Reputation: 6037

I had this issue with an emulator on Linux. After trying pretty much every solution and suggestion on this page, what made it work for me was turning off Instant Run.

Upvotes: 0

Mickey Mouse

Reputation: 55

for me it was something magic I solve it by removing the USB from the Laptop and from mobile too(type-c cable) and

turning off the debugging mode and again turn it on

and then I connect it back to my Laptop and selected the same FILE TRANSFER MODE then run the app and it get installed to my device and work as expected Hope you will find Useful to

Upvotes: 3

Pushan Gupta

Reputation: 3825

In my case, Second Space was created but not switched on. I had to delete the second space and everything worked just fine.

My settings are:

Usb debugging -> ON
Install via Usb -> ON
Verify over USB -> ON
Wait for debugger -> ON

Device: Redmi Note 5 Pro

Upvotes: 0

gordinmitya

Reputation: 1037

Just reboot your phone (: It happens after update android version.

Upvotes: 13

Uttam Panchasara

Reputation: 5865

Recently, I was facing the same issue when I have updated My Device (MI A1) OS from Android Oreo(8.0) to Android Pie(9.0),

Solution: Go to the Settings > Developer options > Now click on > Revoke USB debugging authorisations.

It will disable/remove developer options from your device, Now restart your device once and then you just need to re-enable your developer options and that all you need to do, Enjoy Developing on Pie.

Hope this will help you as well.. :)

Upvotes: 32

Vijay Kumar Kanta

Reputation: 1131

It doesn't hurt to verify your USB port. In my case it was the faulty USB port which I had to switch to the mobo's one instead of the case port.

Upvotes: 1

Steffo Dimfelt

Reputation: 889

On my HTC One I unchecked “Verify apps over USB” in Settings -> Developer Options.

Upvotes: 10

LukeWaggoner

Reputation: 8909

I had this same problem. I solved it by revoking USB Debugging Authorizations and then re-enabling USB Debugging on my chosen device(s).

Edit: Cleaning my project also helped with solving this problem.

Upvotes: 5

Davor

Reputation: 926

I found a solution that works for me. In Developer Options turn off "Monitor apps installed by ADB".

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Upvotes: 25

peterfhannon

Reputation: 1083

It turns out the problem wasn't with Android Studio, but with the device I was using for testing. I tried a different device and it behaved normally, progressing beyond "Installing APK" and stopping on breakpoints.

Somehow the "wait for debugger" setting in developer options on the problem device had switched to off. I switched this back on and now this device is behaving normally.

-Note that I had to choose an arbitrary debug app for the setting to become active. Once I'd set it on, I deselected the debug app and the setting remained on, as I left it. This was a HUAWEI P8 running android 6.0 API Level 23.

Upvotes: 36

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