Problem signing Android app

[Klaus major-k]

Hi Panos,

> Am 12.04.2023 um 18:01 schrieb panagiotis m via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Hello Klaus,
> 
> When you tried to upload a new build using your original keystore, was it
> actually the original one?

yes, of course!

I created a self-signing key, signed the app and uploaded it to Google
It was accepted, but the update, SAME key, was not, which puzzled me very much.

I did not see e.g. any checkbox to let Google NOT sign my app, but maybe that was
the default and Google overwrote my original key with their own and that does not
of course match my initial key. 

That is why I tried to create an key for UPLOADING my app and all future updates for 
that namely app as Google wrote in their docs, see below for the link.

> Usually this error (i.e. that you did not use
> the correct key for signing) is thrown when a different key is used to sign
> an app update compared to the key used to sign the previous build(s) you
> have submitted.

Really? ;-)

> Kind regards,
> Panos
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 15:18, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I created a new app and cannot sign it!?
>> 
>> I did this:
>> <https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing>
>> -> Generate an upload key and keystore
>> and generated a *.jks file.
>> 
>> Then I selected this key file in LC, and at the end of the signing process
>> LC told me that the keystore file had the wrong format!?
>> 
>> Then I renamed the key to *.keystore
>> And LC told me again that this was the wrong format of the key file?
>> 
>> What am I missing?
>> Thank you for any hint!
>> 
>> P.S.
>> I had published my earlier app successfully to the Google Play Store with
>> a selfsigned key in "Android Studio" as shown in:
>> <
>> https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4069/l/32674-how-do-i-create-a-self-signed-certificate-for-an-android-app
>>> 
>> 
>> When I later wanted to upload an update, Google told me that I did not use
>> the correct key for signing???
>> So I read up everthing about this and came to create an UPLOAD key, so I
>> could use this later for any further
>> updates of the app.
>> 
>> However that failed so far, see above...

Best

Klaus

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