INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS when install apk

Question

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?

Answer 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.

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.

Answer 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.