Disable 'testOnly' mode for Android Studio 3.0

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Disable 'testOnly' mode for Android Studio 3.0

Android Studio 3.0 sets android:testOnly="true" automatically on APKs that are ran from the IDE.

However, for some devices (such as OPPO R11), the test-only APKs can never be installed ...

If you face the same problem, try add this line to your '/gradle.properties':

# gradle.properties
android.injected.testOnly=false

Then the boring android:testOnly attribute disappears. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)✧

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BTW, if you do not have an 'OPPO R11' (congratulations), and just want to install such a test-only app with adb, try:

adb install -t <test_only_apk_filename>.apk

Otherwise, you will get a failure message:

Failed to install app-debug.apk: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_TEST_ONLY: installPackageLI]

Hi, I'm having this problem and I don't don't understand, what do you mean by:

"add this line to your '/gradle.properties' "

Where is it? I don't see any file by that name, I have 2:

"build.gradle" files,

and "settings.gradle", and "gradle-wrapper.properties".

But no file with the name that you wrote.

Where is it?

@Daniel587 AndroidStudio will automatically create 'gradle.properties' when you create a project... if you can not find it, just create it in your project dir.

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This is a android feature. When apk manifest file application tag has testOnly=true setting.
The system block the installation of apk, except that installation is through adb with -t option.

thanks!

Thanks!

@Tan-Tshunglee

You are right... But some manufacturer changes the default behavior (e.g. OPPO...), on my OPPO R11 phone adb install -t dose not work...

"adb install -t " is invalid for some manufacturers' phones, like oppo /Lenovo, they always show INSTALL_FAILED_TEST_ONLY even though you've already use "-t"

It worked for me. Try to run this and build again. ./gradlew assembleRelease

Maybe You are uploading the wrong apk file which is generated previously not the signed apk. So select the apk file by locating the exact path of the generated signed apk file.

Problem
App not installed shows when installing signed apk. The Application will install without any problem for the first time, later if I uninstall and try to reinstall the same apk it shows App not installed

Tried the following things

• Tried only with V1 signature
• Tried only with V2 signature
• Tried with both with V1 and V2 signature
• Changed Build Variant to Release
• Tried on 3 different devices
• Uninstalled previous version from the device(for all users) and release folder
• Removed cache memory of the smartphone.

Note :
I had error a while creating keystore Key was created with errors: Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx512M last week but this was solved. But it was resolved by deleting _JAVA_OPTIONS from environment variables I think after this the started.

No Problem with codes
I am 100% sure that it's not a problem in the code Because of I tried making signed apk for the basic login activity application. didn't change a single line of code. But the result was same

Tried the following thread
How to fix App not installed error in Android
How to Fix Android App Not Installed Error?
App not installed
Is there any way to fix APP not installed? (Exact same issue)
None of them solved the issue

Temporary fix
The only method working was disabling Google Play Protect (which is not a proper fix)