Installation error: INSTALL_FAILED_MISSING_SHARED_LIBRARY

Question

"Installation error: INSTALL_FAILED_MISSING_SHARED_LIBRARY

Please check logcat output for more details."

Problem is: There

Answer 1

I removed the <uses-library> tag for google-play-services, but I had <uses-library> tag for google maps as follows :

<uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps"/>

It worked. Most answers in Stackoverflow are with respect to Google-Maps v1. But I had this problem in Google-Maps-v2 and this trick fixed.

Answer 2

my library project has following namespaces, which I have referenced in the main app's manifest file:

Unless you built your own phone, or at least your own firmware, you do not have any of those libraries. You do not use <uses-library> for Android library projects.

Answer 3

The only solution which I have discovered is that whenever non-compatible Emulator is used for running Maps related Application, this problem always occurs. Simple solution is to run application on Google API emulator.