I'm creating an application for android and it was working fine until I went to run a new version of the application in the emulator, it says the apt already exists then attempts to reinstall it which fails because the original source was different.

It says I have to do a full uninstall, unfortunately I cant uninstall through the command prompt because in college the firewall blocks me from downloading the android plugin for eclipse so I have to run it off an external hard drive which i cant use the command prompt on.

So I was wondering is there any other way to uninstall apk's from the emulator or am i going to have to move everything to the hard drive of my laptop and start again?

You can uninstall it from the command line:

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adb uninstall <fullyqualifiedpackagename>

Thanks Very Much!

That fails sometimes - but it's always possible to do something like

rm -r ~/.android/*

to delete *everything* and start with a brand new emulator

(at least, that's the folder on a Mac, not sure where it would be on a windows installation)

Sweevo wrote:That fails sometimes - but it's always possible to do something like

rm -r ~/.android/*

That's probably because user.img is there. There's a command-line option to clear the emulator.