INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED
Whilst developing an Android App using Xamarin 5.1 I had issues deploying to the device. The exception was: Deployment failed because of an internal error: Unexpected install output: pkg: /data/local/tmp/com.mycompany.myapp.apk Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED] It turns out that this is down to the fully qualified naming of an activity. One of the changes with 5.1 is that you now need to fully qualify the Android Callable Wrapper Naming. So for example if you previously had: namespace MyNameSpace { [ Activity ] public partial class ActivityType : Activity { /* ... */ } } Then to maintain compatibility with your scripts/external code, set the ActivityAttribute.Name property: namespace MyNameSpace { [ Activity ( Name = " mynamespace .ActivityType" )] public partial class ActivityType : Activity { /* ... */ } } The important thing to note is is the case sensitivity of the Name decla