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Android Vers. — App not installed as package appears to be invalid.

A topic by 4spera created Jan 13, 2023 Views: 2,651 Replies: 14
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I've recently purchased the game after playing the demo and attempted to download the newest version for android on my Samsung S21 5G. 




At the installation phase, it appears to be working but quickly stops and displays the "App not installed as package appears to be invalid" message. I've attempted every fix that I could possibly find online on my end, including resetting my phone permissions amongst other things but the issue still persists. I've even purchased through Patron as well, but the issue still remains.


Is there any way to fix, or anyone who suffers the same issue? 

(-1)

I'm having the same one idk what their gonna do but it's up to them

Developer

Hi! I answered this question on Patreon and on Discord, so I will answer it here, too. There was something changed on the internal part of the Unity Android compiler that caused this frequent error on some devices. I will try to migrate the game to a newer version of Unity for the next release and check if it can fix this problem.

The apk file doesn't have a certificate or the certificate is corrupted it doesn't have anything to do with unity also if you want to fix it use the same certificate than the older version and the demo update will fail otherwise

https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.html

https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/apksigning/v2

hope Its fixed  soon i made an account just to purchase this on android  today and i cant use it , shame really

Mi teléfono no deja instalarlo y tengo un gama mesa alta 

wait for it to be fixed or read this ↓↓↓ and fix it yourself

https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.html

Can't install android studio on the phone

you dont need android studio search on the playstore for an apk signer or if you dont find anything search for an apk renamer pretty sure it would resign the app

well I did what you said and installed the apk signer and used it and it actually installed. But now when i try to play it goes to a black screen and closes out of the game

worst case the game isn't build for your phone you'd need a pc and the original project to fix it but maybe it just the app you used that broke something

Me aparece esto

Android version still does not work :(

Technically the android version works fine it the installation that fails because the apk is not signed also I am pretty sure that using an apk signer and just renaming the app would work