INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS when install apk

I tried to install my app into Android L Preview Intel Atom Virtual Device, it failed with error:

INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS

What does it mean?

Solution 1:

INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS is when you are trying to install an app that has native libraries and it doesn't have a native library for your cpu architecture. For example if you compiled an app for armv7 and are trying to install it on an emulator that uses the Intel architecture instead it will not work.

Solution 2:

INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS is when you are trying to install an app that has native libraries and it doesn't have a native library for your cpu architecture. For example if you compiled an app for armv7 and are trying to install it on an emulator that uses the Intel architecture instead it will not work.

Using Xamarin on Visual Studio 2015. Fix this issue by:

1. Open your xamarin .sln
2. Right click your android project
3. Click properties
4. Click Android Options
5. Click the 'Advanced' tab

6. Under "Supported architectures" make the following checked:

   1. armeabi-v7a
   2. x86

7. save

8. F5 (build)

Edit: This solution has been reported as working on Visual Studio 2017 as well.

Edit 2: This solution has been reported as working on Visual Studio 2017 for Mac as well.

Solution 3:

I'm posting an answer from another thread because it's what worked well for me, the trick is to add support for both architectures :

Posting this because I could not find a direct answer and had to look at a couple of different posts to get what I wanted done...

I was able to use the x86 Accelerated (HAXM) emulator by simply adding this to my Module's build.gradle script Inside android{} block:

splits {
        abi {
            enable true
            reset()
            include 'x86', 'armeabi-v7a'
            universalApk true
        }
    }

Run (build)... Now there will be a (yourapp)-x86-debug.apk in your output folder. I'm sure there's a way to automate installing upon Run but I just start my preferred HAXM emulator and use command line:

adb install (yourapp)-x86-debug.apk

Solution 4:

If you using Genymotion you need Installing ARM Translation and GApps

Solution 5:

This is indeed a strange error that can be caused by multidexing your app. To get around it, use the following block in your app's build.gradle file:

android {
  splits {
    abi {
        enable true
        reset()
        include 'x86', 'armeabi-v7a'
        universalApk true
    }
  }
  ...[rest of your gradle script]