How to build and sign game for Android on Mac

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Tri|Ga|De (Posted 2012) [#1]

I tried to search the forum to find a guide on how to build and sign an Android game on my Mac. Can anyone tell my how to do it?

Tri|Ga|De (Posted 2012) [#2]

Really nobody knows??

Volker (Posted 2012) [#3]

Try this: http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=1014

Tri|Ga|De (Posted 2012) [#4]

@Volker I guess thats for Windows. I need it for Mac.

therevills (Posted 2012) [#5]

The process will be very similar for Mac. The tools are from the Android SDK, just use Terminal instead of Cmd.

Tri|Ga|De (Posted 2012) [#6]

Okay I tried to follow your guide and ended up with a file called planet defender-signed-zipped.apk First I copied my icons files and edited config.txt. Then I compiled again. I then renamed my APK file to ZIP and removed the META-INF folder. I then renamed the file to APK again (In terminal) I ran the jar signer tool without error. I ran the zipalign tool without error I renamed the planetdefender-signed-zipped.apk to planetdefender.apk and tried to upload it to Google Play. But i get this error: "The server could not process your apk. Try again." Sometimes it even uploads some of the file and then stop with the same error. Any idea where I might have done something wrong?

MikeHart (Posted 2012) [#7]

That sounds like a connection problem between you and google than a problem during the apk creation.

Tri|Ga|De (Posted 2012) [#8]

So you suggest that I keep trying to upload it?

therevills (Posted 2012) [#9]

Which browser are you using? Sometimes I found using a different browser on google site helps with uploading them.

Tri|Ga|De (Posted 2012) [#10]

I'm using Safari, but I tried FireFox and Chrome with the same result. [edit I just tried on a Windows PC with the same result! /edit]

Volker (Posted 2012) [#11]

Is the package name set correctly? Something like this: ANDROID_APP_PACKAGE=com.yourcompany.pdefender

Tri|Ga|De (Posted 2012) [#12]

Yes that should be okay. The APK file does not get uploaded to the Google Play site. Ones it did download all 5 MB but nothing more happened. So it looks like there is something wrong with the upload procedure. Or maybe Google check for something before upload, I don't know!

Tri|Ga|De (Posted 2012) [#13]

Is there any way to check it the key I made is valid?

Tri|Ga|De (Posted 2012) [#14]

I finally nailed it! This time I used muCommander to open the APK file and delete the META-INF folder. It should hopefully be available in the Google Play store shortly.