I have an android app which needs to be signed using a specific keystore for it to be able to communicate with another app. I see that I can put the keystore file in a specific location for eclipse to use it. I don't find any documentation on how to configure the keystore in build.xml for ant builds though.
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Per my research so far, the only way is to achieve this is to copy the keystore file to the default android keystore path (which is generally located under ~/.android directory.
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For Ant builds you just need to add lines like these to the build.properties file:
key.store=c:/users/me/my-release-key.keystore key.alias=release_alias key.store.password=MyStorePassword key.alias.password=MyKeyPassword assuming that your build.xml is based on the main_rules.xml that comes with the SDK
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Gunanaresh
This works only for release builds. Unfortunately, it appears there is no way simple way to specify custom keystore for debug builds.
I'm using Maven for that and it works fine. I have configured multiple build profiles like "release", "devel" etc. signed with different keys. If you want to use Maven look for maven android plugin.
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Blundell
You won't notice it unless you use Google Maps, this relies on the correct debug keystore being used.
In eclipse it is done through window-preferences-android-build-custom debug keystore.
As you can see from there, default debug keystore is located in .android/debug.keystore at your homedir (~ at linuxes and c:\Users\whatevah on windowses).
So you can replace default ~/.android/debug.keystore with your custom.
