# Installing downloaded Android apk files does not work anymore
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839 "2018-03-07T18:38:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@losmobilos](https://community.thunkable.com/u/losmobilos)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/1 "2018-03-07T18:38:00Z")
Since release of the new Thunkable X environment downloaded apk files will not install.
It worked until today.
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### Author:  [@losmobilos](https://community.thunkable.com/u/losmobilos)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/2 "2018-03-08T12:22:11Z")
Tested again: get an error message saying that parsing was a problem when trying to install the .apk file.
Any ideas as to what can be the issue here?
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### Author:  [@Red\_Panda](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Red_Panda)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/3 "2018-03-08T12:48:47Z")
Compiling works for me `¯\_(ツ)_/¯`
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### Author:  [@losmobilos](https://community.thunkable.com/u/losmobilos)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/4 "2018-03-08T13:04:44Z")
Also installing?
I tested another app and also on another device - same problem.
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### Author:  [@Red\_Panda](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Red_Panda)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/5 "2018-03-08T15:52:03Z")
Installing works on my Moto E with Android 5.1
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### Author:  [@losmobilos](https://community.thunkable.com/u/losmobilos)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/6 "2018-03-08T19:17:49Z")
Just tested again on Android 8.0 and Android 7.1.
Still an issue for freshly built apps.
@Thunkable: Can you reproduce this? (BTW: Live test on Android still works - it’s the built .apk file that is corrupt)
Can it be related to the app icon or other app settings/properties?
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### Author:  [@losmobilos](https://community.thunkable.com/u/losmobilos)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/7 "2018-03-08T19:32:09Z")
Oh well - something has been changed: I needed to update my Bundle ID to the correct format.
The app icon is still wrong, though.
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### Author:  [@losmobilos](https://community.thunkable.com/u/losmobilos)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/8 "2018-03-09T06:03:50Z")
Got the app building by changing the Bundle ID property - but now iOS does not build (seems unrelated to the Bundle ID - but who knows…).
EDIT: Now iOS apps seem to build again. Super.
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### Author:  [@losmobilos](https://community.thunkable.com/u/losmobilos)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/9 "2018-03-09T18:31:53Z")
Hmmm - the build process/environment seems awfully slow when building for iOS (several hours delay) - maybe a restart of your build server could help?
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### Author:  [@albert](https://community.thunkable.com/u/albert)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/10 "2018-03-12T21:47:54Z")
Apologies – we did restart our iOS build server – hopefully this works more quickly for you now.
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### Author:  [@losmobilos](https://community.thunkable.com/u/losmobilos)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 6:01am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/11 "2018-03-13T06:01:08Z")
Thanks a lot, Albert. That seemed to do the trick.
BTW: I believe that once your build system (for any initial reason) starts to slow down there’s a risk that users will commit more than one build job making the delays even worse - which in turn may lead to even more build jobs being committed and so on.
Some sort of receipt for the job (e.g. queue number) may make the progress more visible to users. Also the build limit (of one job)? does not seem to work…?
Hope that helps a bit.
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### Author:  [@albert](https://community.thunkable.com/u/albert)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/12 "2018-03-13T16:23:55Z")
Yes, you are absolutely correct. We had a limit in but our latest release seemed to break that limit so we made a fix for that. More optimization on the build side to come.
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### Author:  [@Hayder](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Hayder)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 8:41am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/13 "2021-11-19T08:41:53Z")
Hello Albert
I have tried to download my app apk but it says that I reach the limitation. Is it possible to increase the “Two times download each month” because I need to test my app.
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/installing-downloaded-android-apk-files-does-not-work-anymore/18839/14 "2024-11-08T12:04:17Z")