Failure [install_parse_failed_no_certificates] when attempting to install APK to the emulator

Question

I downloaded Myfiles.apk from the internet and I'm trying to install it to my Android emulator.

While installing Myfiles.apk file through the command prompt, I'm getting this error.

I tried following in command prompt

C:\android-sdk\tools> adb -s emulator-5554 install C:\Users\Me\Desktop\MyFiles.apk

How do I install this APK to the emulator correctly?

Tate

Possible duplicate of What is INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES error? – Configurationism

Answer 1

This site helped me a lot to properly sign the unsigned apk. But,for the last process i.e. for jarsigner,following command need to be used

jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore my-release-key.keystore    my_application.apk alias_name.

Further do look upon this unable to sign zipexception if you encounter with any zipexception error . So overall,use following procedure

1. keytool -genkey -v -keystore debug.keystore -alias android -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 20000
2. jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore my-release-key.keystore yourapkalign.apk alias_name
3. zipalign -v 4 yourapk.apk yourapkalign.apk

Now,you can successfully install the apk file.

Mottle

zipalign -v apkfile is not sufficient, you need to execute zipalign -v 4 apkfile you need to provide align size. – Anisometric

Also, I have been told that you need to run zipalign last, or jarsigner breaks the alignment. – Milks

I am trying to install app to my phone. I've executed all the above commands. (Though I think the second one should be ... -keystore debug.keystore .... But I am getting the following error: >Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES: Failed to collect certificates from /data/app/vmdl840513344.tmp/base.apk: META-INF/MYKEY.SF indicates /data/app/vmdl840513344.tmp/base.apk is signed using APK Signature Scheme v2, but no such signature was found. Signature stripped?] – Sears

2021 and also getting this same error as @Sears . Any solution? – Hanzelin

For Android 11 (No signature found in package of version 2 or newer): zipalign first, then instead of jarsign: apksigner sign --ks ~/.android/debug.keystore --ks-key-alias someKey foo.apk – Exo

Answer 2

It means that the apk you downloaded hasn't been signed with any certificate, debug or otherwise.

You can sign it from the command line, as described here.

Chew

Answer 3

You can use the androiddebugkey the sign the apk.

The keystore lives in ~/.android, named debug.keystore.

Run

keytool -list -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore

To see the debug key, we can see its name is androiddebugkey

Run the following command to sign the apk.

jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore yourapp-release.apk androiddebugkey

Ultrasonic

Answer 4

Nowadays you should use apksigner and not jarsigner. jarsigner is "not recommended" here.

In my case jarsigner was not signing it properly, and using apksigner solved the problem.

Lorient