Android INSTALL_FAILED_UID_CHANGED

Question

I have been doing debugging on Android using my Nexus 4, however I recently encountered this error here. After doing some research on this error, it seems to be an issue wit

Answer 1

From the ADB shell you can find solution in two ways. 1. keep the data and find the solution and 2. solution without persisting the data

solution for 1. is to run the commandadb chown -R UID:UID /data/data/your.package.name through command prompt from ADB path.

solution for 2. is to run the command adb rm -r /data/data/your.package.name from the same path.