LC Android: Invalid Keystore Format error when saving a standalone for deployment

Thu Jun 11 18:30:42 EDT 2015

Jacque and Ralph,

thanks for your comments.

There were several problems i had to fix.

1. it seems all copies of my “old” android sdk did not work anymore. Tried here 4 different versions which were stored on different time machine drives. I had to install a new version of it.

2. I had an icon image in standalone settings selected which had a wrong size (512x512). Interestingly it worked  with that image when i first published that app in 2013. But now this image caused the package manifest error

3. Not really a problem. I noticed today that if i enter the password very fast and definitely without a typo some characters seem not to find there way into the field. 
I am writing with 10 fingers and i am really fast. And if i type slowly i am always able to create a standalone (after fixing the above 2 problems). But not if i type very fast. If i remember right now, i ran into this already in 2013.
I have now put a notice in 1Password for my “Keystore” password/alias record. So i have not to ask the list in 2 years again. ;)

Regards,

Matthias

> Am 11.06.2015 um 18:15 schrieb Ralph DiMola <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>:
> 
> Matthias,
> 
> I'm currently running:
> Android SDK tools 23.0.5
> Android SDK platform-tools 21
> Android 5.0 API 21
> 
> I don’t have Android 5.1. installed at this time.
> 
> LC 6.7.5
> Win XP SP3
> Mac OS X 10.9.5 Xcode 6.2
> 
> I have not had a problem linking and submitting Android apps(last week) or any Open SSL version issues with Google (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14257)
> 
> I also have had no problems submitting and getting iOS apps approved(yesterday) with this setup.
> 
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 10:03 AM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: LC Android: Invalid Keystore Format error when saving a standalone for deployment
> 
> On June 11, 2015 3:37:14 AM CDT, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D <matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de> wrote:
>> Ralph,
>> 
>> thanks for recommending Keystore Explorer.
>> 
>> I can open my keystore file w/o problem.
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe my problems have to do with the fact that i have setup my mac in 
>> April this year from scratch?
>> 
>> Is it possible that there are some certificates or keys missing? 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Matthias
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 11.06.2015 um 02:00 schrieb Ralph DiMola
>> <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>:
>>> 
>>> See if you can open it with "Keystore Explorer". It's a great GUI way
>> to deal with the keystore. It runs in the java machine so it is 
>> platform independent.
>>> 
>>> Ralph DiMola
>>> IT Director
>>> Evergreen Information Services
>>> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On
>> Behalf Of Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 7:28 PM
>>> To: How to use LiveCode
>>> Subject: LC Android: Invalid Keystore Format error when saving a
>> standalone for deployment
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> maybe i am missing something.
>>> 
>>> I have to update an app i uploaded to the google store mid 2014.
>>> 
>>> For  creating the standalone i am using of course the same keystore
>> file i used for the version from 2014.
>>> 
>>> After i enter alias and the 2 passwords i get the following error
>> message
>>> 
>>> “There was an error while saving the standalone application signing 
>>> failed - keystore load: Inavlid keystore format"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What could cause this error?
>>> 
>>> I wanted to try a fresh version of the android SDK to see if this
>> solves my problem, so  I downloaded the most recent version of Android 
>> SDK and installed SDKs for 2.2 and 2.3.
>>> But with the new version i get an error “There was an error while
>> saving the standalone application. could not generate package 
>> manifest”. The most version of the Android SDK Build-tools are 
>> installed in SDK Manager.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So if someone has an idea what is going wrong here.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I am working on Mac OS X 10.10.3, LC 6.7.5, Android SKD 24.3 and JDK
>> 1.6. 
>>> 
>>> I know 1.6 is outdated, but i need it for a iSCSI driver which only
>> runs with 1.6.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Matthias
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> Besides SDK 2,2 and 2,3, try also installing 4.1 or higher. There were some problems reported on the forums that mostly involved the emulator, but the fix might solve the keystore problem too. 
> 
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