Comments on: Signing an Android Application for Real Life Mobile Device Usage / Installation

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By: patrick

patrick — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:59:59 +0000

Hi Inor, the quote you mentioned was related to building an Android application back in January 2009. At that time, signing an APK was not built into the Eclipse SDK and therefore, a compiled APK file was not signed — which means, it did not run on real devices. Of course — and you mentioned that already — this is different 2.5 years later with much more advanced tools, like the one you are using.

Hence, my comment was absolutely correct at the time, but is obviously outdated by now.

By: inor

inor — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:48:14 +0000

i started reading your article and immediately read something that is definitely false: “However, the .APK file your compiler creates can only be used with the emulator on your desktop PC or Mac. You cannot use the same .APK file to install and run your app on your Android phone”

i noticed also that a lot of people are saying the same thing in stackoverflow…. it’s still not true

if i do a clean build in eclipse and then upload the resultant .apk to my server i can download it from my phone and install it w/o a problem.
it can also be mailed and then downloaded to a phone and installed.

maybe this has changed since you wrote the article…

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By: Dharini

Dharini — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:17:05 +0000

Thanks so much for this. I was struggling with a project and your detailed instructions helped. Eclipse does have a plugin for signing your apps now though, just like you suggested. Maybe some bored Eclipse plugin developer actually took the idea from your website

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:50:59 +0000

Is there a way to reverse engineer the .apk file to show what keystore was used for signing? I can’t locate my keystore file for this particular application, and Windows 7 isn’t finding all my files through search so I can’t locate this store.

Thanks,
Jeff

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Lisa Smith — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:27:54 +0000

They should definitely make a website where everyone could share their created apps and put them into categories that would be so nice and probably would have many visitors