Android & Eclipse “Could not find *.apk”

August 21st, 2010 by Christian Leave a reply »

If you’re using Eclipse to develop Android applications and get the error:

[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] ------------------------------
[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] Android Launch!
[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] adb is running normally.
[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] Could not find xxx.apk!
[2010-08-16 19:58:04 - xxx] ------------------------------

after importing a project (maybe doing some reconfiguring), just remove the project (only the project from Eclipse, not from disk!).
Then simply re-import it and it should work again!

Update March 14th: according to Sean, you can get this error also by having the emulator already running and changing the project SDK. The solution then is to close the emulator and run it again from eclipse. Thanks for the info!

4 comments

  1. emaas says:

    No, reimporting the project does not work in all cases.
    Tried it a few times, and still have the problem.
    Thanks for posting your solution though :) .

  2. Christian says:

    Hi!

    Thanks for the reply, if you manage to find a solution I’d gladly update my post with your credits!

  3. sean says:

    I got this by having the emulator already running and changing the project sdk. When I closed the emulator down and ran from eclipsed it worked fine.

  4. Christian says:

    Sean, thanks for the headsup!

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