+retomeier, who assured me that this is possible :-) Ian
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Craig Payne <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Ian, > > You mean I can use my release key for development also? I do have one, of > course, but I will have to look into how to do this. Can you point me in > the right direction, perhaps? That solution will still be a bit fiddly, > because I have a FREE and PRO version of the app which both use different > certs. > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Ian Ni-Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I agree, you should have been notified. I do not know why you weren't. >> >> I don't understand the issue with the debug certificate. Do you not have >> a valid release key certificate that you can use for development? >> Ian >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Craig Payne <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Not quite true, Ian. I am trying to fix a bug in an app I released over >>> a year ago, and my debug.keystore certificate has expired. Given that this >>> is the default behaviour (365 day expiry), most developers are not going to >>> be able to use their old API keys to continue development for very long. >>> >>> I need to make a tiny change, and to do this I will be forced to upgrade >>> to v2, which means I can no longer support Android 1.6. This will >>> immediately cut out 8% of my users, who will loudly complain and give me >>> bad reviews in Google Play. They are not able to upgrade because of >>> fragmentation, and are stuck with an old version of Android, which up to >>> now I have been able to support. >>> I didn't see the "clear communications" that this would be deprecated >>> either, and I pay special attention to emails from Google. I WAS told by >>> Google that the v2 web-based maps would be deprecated and DID update them >>> in time. >>> While I might expect something like this from the cowboys at Facebook, I >>> hold Google to a higher standard and I am shocked and disappointed. >>> >>> It sounds like you're actually from Google, so do you have any solution >>> for us developers who are trying to support Android, but who have existing >>> keys with expired debug certificates? >>> >>> In any case, you appear to be assuming that we shut down a service >>>> without informing its users. This is not the case. We stopped accepting new >>>> users into a service which we intend to keep online for a period of several >>>> years. No existing users were affected by this change. 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