Wednesday 30 September 2015

[INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED] Error

If you encounter an issue when trying to run a Cordova app in an Android emulator with the error messages similar like the following:
  Installing app on device...
C:\Users\Me\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\MyApp\MyApp\platforms\android\cordova\node_modules\q\q.js:126
throw e;
^
ERROR: Failed to launch application on device: ERROR: Failed to install apk to device:  pkg: /data/local/tmp/android-debug.apk
Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED]
  Command finished with error code 1: cmd /s /c ""C:\Users\Me\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\MyApp\MyApp\platforms\android\cordova\run.bat" --nobuild --target=169.254.56.136:5555 --debug "--buildConfig=C:\Users\Me\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\MyApp\MyApp\build.json""
  ERROR running one or more of the platforms: Error: cmd: Command failed with exit code 1
  You may not have the required environment or OS to run this project
try to make sure that Package Name in config.xml is in lower case then rebuild/rerun the app.