Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED] Android

I have looked every where for an answer to this. I have found many solutions for this error but it's not working for me. I have just started working with android 3 days ago. It was

Solution 1:

<meta-data
    android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY" />

A meta-data element always requires either an android:value or android:resource attribute.

Either remove this element altogether, or add a value to the element, for example:

<meta-data
    android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
    android:value=".MyActivity"/>

(The PARENT_ACTIVITY metadata helps in ancestral navigation.)