Bundle tool "install apks" command isn't working sometimes.

Describe the bug Bundle tool install apks command isn’t working bundletool install-apks --apks=my_app.apks on Nexus 6P device (Android Oreo) sometimes. Although it doesn’t give any problem for Google Pixel 2 XL.

I tried to run the following the command to get the device specs. but got the following weird output. Do you know what could be the cause of this?

$ bundletool get-device-spec --output=nexus6p.json
Warning: Can't detect device locale, will use 'en-US'.

$ cat nexus6p.json
{
  "supportedLocales": ["en-US"],
  "screenDensity": 4294967295,
  "sdkVersion": 1
}%

Bundletool version(s) affected Version: [e.g. 0.3.3]

Stacktrace $ bundletool install-apks --apks=my_app.apks

Warning: Can’t detect device locale, will use ‘en-US’. [BT:0.3.3] Error: Installation of the app failed. com.android.tools.build.bundletool.exceptions.InstallationException: Installation of the app failed. at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.exceptions.InstallationException$Builder.build(InstallationException.java:47) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.exceptions.InstallationException$Builder.build(InstallationException.java:41) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.device.DdmlibDevice.installApks(DdmlibDevice.java:98) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.device.ApksInstaller.installOnDevice(ApksInstaller.java:89) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.device.ApksInstaller.installApks(ApksInstaller.java:78) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.device.ApksInstaller.installApks(ApksInstaller.java:45) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.commands.InstallApksCommand.lambda$execute$4(InstallApksCommand.java:138) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.io.TempFiles.lambda$withTempDirectory$0(TempFiles.java:67) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.io.TempFiles.withTempDirectoryReturning(TempFiles.java:51) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.io.TempFiles.withTempDirectory(TempFiles.java:70) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.commands.InstallApksCommand.execute(InstallApksCommand.java:122) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.BundleToolMain.main(BundleToolMain.java:85) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.BundleToolMain.main(BundleToolMain.java:44) Caused by: com.android.ddmlib.InstallException: List of APKs is empty: the main APK must be specified. at com.android.ddmlib.Device.installPackages(Device.java:930) at com.android.tools.build.bundletool.device.DdmlibDevice.installApks(DdmlibDevice.java:92) … 10 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: List of APKs is empty: the main APK must be specified. at com.android.ddmlib.SplitApkInstaller.validateArguments(SplitApkInstaller.java:214) at com.android.ddmlib.SplitApkInstaller.create(SplitApkInstaller.java:237) at com.android.ddmlib.Device.installPackages(Device.java:925)

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior.

• Generate the apks set archive.
• install the apk from this apks set.

Environment: OS: MAC OS Device : Nexus 6p

[gajendrakumartwinwal]

No this command is not working but after making below changes it is working fine.

Thanks for such a quick response. Solved:

Before change: export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/Gajendra/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools export PATH=$PATH:${ANDROID_HOME}

After change: export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/Gajendra/Library/Android/sdk export PATH=$PATH:${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools

[plecesne]

The ANDROID_HOME variable should be set to the path to the root of the Android SDK, not platform-tools or any of the other subdirectories.