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Android update to gradle 3.2.1 [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_UNEXPECTED_EXCEPTION] on Android <=6

After updating the gradle tools version from 3.1.4 to 3.2.1 the app cannot be installed anymore on the Android 6.0 and bellow on release builds (Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_UNEXPECTED_EXCEPTION]).

compileSdkVersion = 28 
minSdkVersion = 19
targetSdkVersion = 27
gradleToolsVersion = 3.2.1


distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10.2-all.zip

APK generated by 3.1.4 AndroidManifest attributes:

android:versionCode=".."
android:versionName=".."
android:installLocation="1"
package=".."

APK generated by 3.2.1 AndroidManifest attributes:

android:versionCode=".."
android:versionName=".."
android:installLocation="1"
android:compileSdkVersion="28"
android:compileSdkVersionCodename="9"
package=".."
platformBuildVersionCode="same as versionCode"
platformBuildVersionName="same as versionName"

If I downgrade just the version of the gradle build tools from 3.2.1 to 3.1.4 then it's working.

Exception:

12-24 11:55:40.930 1498-1527/system_process W/PackageManager: Failed collect during installPackageLI
android.content.pm.PackageParser$PackageParserException: Failed reading resources.arsc in java.util.jar.StrictJarFile@39b13b4e
    at android.content.pm.PackageParser.loadCertificates(PackageParser.java:600)
    at android.content.pm.PackageParser.collectCertificates(PackageParser.java:1094)
    at android.content.pm.PackageParser.collectCertificates(PackageParser.java:1049)
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.installPackageLI(PackageManagerService.java:10564)
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.access$2300(PackageManagerService.java:234)
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService$6.run(PackageManagerService.java:8627)
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
    at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)
    at com.android.server.ServiceThread.run(ServiceThread.java:46)
 Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF has invalid digest for resources.arsc in resources.arsc
    at java.util.jar.JarVerifier.invalidDigest(JarVerifier.java:140)
    at java.util.jar.JarVerifier.access$000(JarVerifier.java:51)
    at java.util.jar.JarVerifier$VerifierEntry.verify(JarVerifier.java:132)
    at java.util.jar.JarFile$JarFileInputStream.read(JarFile.java:117)
    at android.content.pm.PackageParser.readFullyIgnoringContents(PackageParser.java:5015)
    at android.content.pm.PackageParser.loadCertificates(PackageParser.java:597)
    at android.content.pm.PackageParser.collectCertificates(PackageParser.java:1094) 
    at android.content.pm.PackageParser.collectCertificates(PackageParser.java:1049) 
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.installPackageLI(PackageManagerService.java:10564) 
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.access$2300(PackageManagerService.java:234) 
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService$6.run(PackageManagerService.java:8627) 
    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739) 
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) 
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135) 
    at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61) 
    at com.android.server.ServiceThread.run(ServiceThread.java:46) 
Solution

  • The fix is updating the gradle tools version to 3.3.0-rc1 as Pierre suggested in comments.