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Simone Alessandria
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Simone Alessandria wrote his first program when he was 12. It was a text-based fantasy game for the Commodore 64. Now, he is a trainer (MCT), author, speaker, passionate software architect, and always a proud coder. He is the founder and owner of Softwarehouseit. His mission is to help developers achieve more through training and mentoring. He has authored several books on Flutter, including Flutter Projects, published by Packt, and web courses on Pluralsight and Udemy.
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Generating Android release certificates

keytool is a Java utility that manages keys and certificates. The keytool utility stores the keys and certificates in a keystore.

In this recipe, you will understand how to use the keytool utility to generate Android certificates. This step is required to sign and publish your app in the Google Play Store.

Getting ready

Before following along with this recipe, you should have completed the previous recipes in this chapter: Registering your Android app on Google Play and Installing and configuring fastlane.

How to do it...

You will now create an Android keystore. Follow these steps:

  1. On Mac/Linux, use the following command:
    keytool -genkey -v -keystore ~/key.jks -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 -alias key
    
  2. On Windows, use the following command:
    keytool -genkey -v -keystore c:\Users\USER_NAME\key.jks -storetype JKS -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 -alias androidkey
    
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Simone Alessandria

Simone Alessandria wrote his first program when he was 12. It was a text-based fantasy game for the Commodore 64. Now, he is a trainer (MCT), author, speaker, passionate software architect, and always a proud coder. He is the founder and owner of Softwarehouseit. His mission is to help developers achieve more through training and mentoring. He has authored several books on Flutter, including Flutter Projects, published by Packt, and web courses on Pluralsight and Udemy.
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