1) You should have a (secure) backup of your keystore. More than one, in fact. So if the keystore is damaged, you should be back in business by restoring it from one of your backups.
2) You should have a (secure) record of what alias you used -- can you just type it in? I never publish from Eclipse, so I don't recall how the UI works, but perhaps the only problem is that it has forgotten what alias name you entered before, and isn't looking it up. 3) You should have a (secure) record of the password for your keystore. Given #1 and #3, you should be able to list the aliases in the keystore with keytool, from the Java SDK. Actually, I don't think you even need #3 for that -- and if your keystore is intact, not #1 either. Keytool is a pain to use, but it works, and is independent of the Eclipse UI. If you can't recover your signing key, you are screwed. That's why you should be sure to do #1, 2, and 3. On Nov 28, 1:17 pm, "Mik&Anna" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > I published my first android app developed with Eclipse. > Now I have a new version ready, but when I try to use the same key > file and I end up in the menu: > Key alias selection > the combo box aside 'Alias:' is empty! > > So I get an error message 'Select key alias'. And I cannot proceed. > I don't know what went wrong with my key & alias but I believe I > cannot publish an update of my app, because of the requirement of > using same key for every subsequent version. > > Is there a way around this? > I don't like the idea of publish a new app as I don't want to lose all > statistics and people who download it already. > > Thanks for any hint, > Mik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
