App

Only a month ago, running an app through the Android Studio emulator was running fine.  Now I'm warmly greeted by

Error
Installation did not succeed.
The application could not be installed: INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES

The complete error is 

Warning from Google Play Store when uploading an App

Uploading a new version of an Android app to Google Play and I'm seeing this error

Version code 1 has already been used. Try another version code.

There are three areas to observe:

Version Code: {whole integer}
Version Name: {String}
Version Name Suffix: {Integer}

Currently, my settings are:

Whilst uploading a new version of our Android app, I had the following error display

The Android App Bundle was not signed.

The short answer is in the build type release debuggable isn't set to false.

How to solve

In the build.gradle file (path: android > app)

If you have a situation where either you have forgotten a Keystore password or change of developers and the password wasn't sent across.... what to do?  However, your app lives on and needs to be updated!

Initialise your Capacitor config​

To initialise Capacitor use the CLI questionnaire:

npx cap init

On executing the above command, you will be prompted to answer a few questions for your app such as your app's name and the package ID.

Run the NPX commands to update the app

npm run build && npx cap sync

Run app with live reload

ionic cap run {platform} -l --external

Replace {platform} with Android or iOS depending on your environment as follows

Approaches to resolving “Module not specified” Error in Android Studio

When attempting to run or debug the application on Android Studio you can come across the error “Module not specified” in the Android Studio.  This article will outline approaches I took to get a resolution to this issue.

Working in Android Studio when attempting to run a project I had the following error

Unable to determine application id: com.android.tools.idea.run.ApkProvisionException: ERROR: APK path is not specified for module "android"

Recently a client handed me code that runs an app through iOS and Android.  No details about whether native or otherwise.  Once I had the opportunity to crawl through the code, definitely not native.  Typescript, Angular, Cordova... etc.