APK failed to install on AVD despite installing on actual device

Issue

I created a Kivy app and created a debug APK using Buildozer in a Linux virtual environment (my host laptop is Windows). When pushing this to my phone, the app works perfectly fine and 100% as expected. Before trying to push this to the Play Store, I wanted to test it on different devices using an emulator.

I installed Android Studio on my host laptop (as I am more comfortable there than Linux) and copied my .apk over. When I try and drag and drop my .apk into my Android virtual device, I get an error that says:

APK failed to install
Error: Could not parse error string

I even tried installing it directly into my emulator, by navigating to the platform-tools folder in the Sdk file, and copy and pasting my .apk there, and then trying to install it directly from cmd using:

adb install myapp-0.1-armeabi-v7a-debug.apk

however then I get an error message saying

adb: error: failed to get feature set: no devices/emulators found

When I check this in Android Studio by going to Tools > SDK Manager > SDK Tools tab, it clearly says that SDK manager and Emulator are both installed.

What am I doing wrong, and how can I sort this?

Thank you

Solution

The reason for this was that the Android architecture needed to be x86 in order to run on the emulator.

To correct it, I had to change:

android.arch = armeabi-v7a

to

android.arch = x86

and then create the debug APK.

It might be necessary to change the p4a branch to develop and run a buildozer android clean to clean the build.

Answered By - c_n_blue