Could not determine the installation package com.company.appName

Question

I can\'t launch my app anymore on Android. The iOS counterpart seems to be fine. The full error is:

ADB0000: Could not determin the installation path for pa         


        

Answer 1

This usually happens when you have more than one user in an Android device (I still cannot figure out why is this).

As mentioned in the comment by using the adb uninstall full.package.name command it will uninstall the app.

But there's another way which does not require command line or nothing related to that.

If you go to the Settings -> Apps and Notifications on the Android device you will be able to uninstall it from there.

Let's use the UnoQuickStart.Droid app as example here. As you can see it's already in the same state as it was yours.

Once in the App details both Uninstall and Force Stop are disabled. But do you see those 3 dots image at the right upper corner? Click on it.

This will bring you a context menu with a single option "Uninstall for all users". You can click on it with confidence.

As expected, a warning message telling you what's gonna happen. Just click "Ok".

As you can see the App is not longer installed and you will now be able to install it again.

Hope this helps.-

Answer 2

As per apineda's instructions, using adb unistall com.company.appname fixed the problem. I was able to get to the ADB location by navigating through Visual Studio -> Tools -> Android -> Android ADB Command Prompt.

Before I did that, I looked at the App list for my phone, which listed the app, but apparently not installed for this user. The Uninstall and Force Stop buttons were disabled and several of the fields just said loading... or something like that.