Android Studio Stuck on “Installing APK”

Question

Android Studio no longer seems to be detecting when an app has installed on a target device and opened. It gets stuck on \"Installing APK\" and the progress bar is empty. Th

Answer 1

I have this problem recently on my Pixel 2 testing device, latest factory image with Android Studio 3.4, on windows 10.

I have tried all methods mentioned but none of them work. It cost me more than 6 hours to figure it out.

My problem is the USB driver, I am not using the "perfect" USB driver. My driver works in most scenarios and commands but not in every scenario.

You do not need Android Studio to dig into this problem, just using adb.

Please try if you can install apk from adb using following command:

adb install xxxx.apk

If it stuck at "performing streamed install" but never finish, this is the problem.

Please try push a big file(more than 5MB) to your device:

adb push xxxx.apk /storage/emulated/0

In my testing, it stuck at 13%, 16%, etc, but never go on. It seems cannot transfer large files. This is why the installation is pending in my case.

I update the driver to another one, and the problem is fixed. Hope it can solve your problem, too.