Fixing INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED Error when Upgrading to targetSDKVersion 31 in Android

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If changing the target version of Android to 31 gives us the following error:

Installation did not succeed.
The application could not be installed: INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED

We need to do the following:

1. Go to the AndroidManifest.xml file
2. Go to the <application section, and in the first activity (the intent.action.Main activity), add the following:

android:exported="true"

It should look like this:

        <activity android:name=".Activitys.SplashScreen"
            android:exported="true">

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