Android API 34 and Android keystore

[J. Landman Gay]

I stand corrected, thanks.

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On August 9, 2024 4:29:57 PM Ralph DiMola via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Klaus,
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> Once you lose the keystore you don't have the key pair used to generate the 
> keystore entry. Scott is correct, you have to re-publish with all the 
> headaches Scott enumerated.
> Sorry man...
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> Ralph DiMola
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> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf 
> Of scott--- via use-livecode
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2024 3:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: Android API 34 and Android keystore
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> As for which SDK variant to install… I don’t know but hope you will report 
> back before I encounter this question :- )
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> As for the second question about the lost keystore… a few years ago I 
> encountered a similar problem (I apparently overwrote my keystore with a 
> different one and, by the time I needed to submit an update to GooglePlay, 
> I had lots of  back-ups of the wrong keystore!) After reading up on things 
> I came to the conclusion that there was no solution and that without the 
> original keystore the app could no longer be updated in GooglePlay. The 
> only way forward I could see was to “unpublish” the existing app and create 
> a new app entry (with a different internal name but using the same 
> storefront name.) This meant that the existing users couldn’t “update” 
> their app without downloading the new app (searchable under the original 
> name.) I can’t recall how I handled the user-data that the original app 
> generated but I suspect that it was lost and needed to be recreated. (With 
> this app it would have been mildly annoying but not unbearable. I can 
> imagine use-cases where moving the data might be a big issue.)  This was a 
> commercial app where the clients were known to me so it was possible to 
> notify them and they could get the word out to their employees.
>
> This was a number of years ago so perhaps things have changed since then. I 
> hope that you find a better solution, Klaus.
>
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>> On Aug 9, 2024, at 2:10 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode 
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> two questions:
>> 1. In my "Android Studio" there are three options for SDK Tools for API 
>> level 34:
>> 34
>> 34-ext8
>> 34-ext12
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>> What should I install? 34 or all of them?
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>> 2. I need to update my Android freeware app to above mentioned API.
>> I had uploaded the first version to Google Play with a self signed
>> key, made with Android Studio, Google was content.
>>
>> As far as I understood this, I need to use this key for every upload of 
>> that app.
>> And Google then takes care of (final) signing etc.
>>
>> However I lost that keystore file during a hd crash a couple of months ago.
>> What should/can I do?
>>
>> Any advice much appreciated, thank you!
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Klaus
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>> klaus at major-k.de
>>
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