I have developed my 1st application which is a location based reminder which uses google maps. When i debug my project from android studio to my device using USB cable everything goes fine but when i export my app by "Generating signed apk" in my device m unable to see map it's just a blank page with Google written below.. M unable to fetch the map.. M i missing something or is there another way to generate apk for google map project's ?
Have generated a keystore for release mode by using this command :-
keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias alias_name -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
After this i added the signing configuration to the build file for the app module as :-
android {
signingConfigs {
config {
keyAlias 'ramu'
keyPassword 'ramu@localert'
storeFile file('C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_25/bin/my-release-key.keystore')
storePassword 'ramu@localert'
}
release {
storeFile file('C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_25/bin/my-release-key.keystore')
storePassword 'ramu@localert'
keyAlias 'ramu'
keyPassword "password"
}
}
compileSdkVersion 21
buildToolsVersion "21.1.2"
defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.example.anand.project"
minSdkVersion 18
targetSdkVersion 21
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
signingConfig signingConfigs.release
}
debug {
signingConfig signingConfigs.config
}
}
}
n now when i invoke assemblerelease m getting the following error :-
Error:Execution failed for task ':app:packageRelease'.
Failed to read key ramu from store "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_25\bin\my-release-key.keystore": Cannot recover key
Either i missed something and i am confused whether to generate a new keystore for release mode or should i use the debug keystore which i used for google maps api.. ? I ended up with generating more than 2 .apk's..