

keystore extension (PhoneGap won’t accept the keystore otherwise). When you save the keystore using Keystore Explorer be sure to save it with the. Okay you did it! Now you just have to save your keystore and get ready to use it in your build environment (for me that is PhoneGap Build). You should be able to use the default alias We do have to add our name and a little information about ourselves here: It’s important to note that we need to have a key for Google Play that has an expiration date AFTER Octo(yeah who knows why) so just choose 25 years from now. We want a 2,048 RSA key (which should be the default) We are trying to create a Java Keystore (JKS). The first thing we are going to do is install a free application called Keystore Explorer from here: Once you have done that you are ready to open it up and create a new keystore choosing the following: Apple has a nice GUI interface to use for generating iOS certs (the down side is you have to have a MAC) and now you can use a GUI tool on your PC as well to generate your Android keystore! You are about to find out how! My guess is that you already have found that out and that is why you are here checking out this tutorial. First of all, the example provided by Phonegap Build and others doesn’t work with more recent versions of the java keytool and I guess they gave up on updating their docs (probably because of the impossible task of maintaining what Oracle is updating).
KEYSTORE EXPLORER JKS HOW TO
I have seen a ridiculous number of useless tutorials on how to create an Android keystore/certificate to be used for sigining Android apps that I decided I needed to write one that is actually useful.
