Installation error: INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED?

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S.P picture S.P · May 19, 2011 · Viewed 94.7k times · Source

I am developing a small application that lists all the applications present/ installed on the android device. But I'm getting the below error while i'm trying to run the code.

Installation error: INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED

Please can any one help me to sort out this error.

Answer

Andy picture Andy · Dec 23, 2012

There could be another reason for this error. The attribute

android:taskAffinity="string"

Should always start with a dot, like:

android:taskAffinity=".string"

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