Flutter Picking Wrong Keystore path and giving error key.jks not found

Question

I followed all the steps on the Flutter official site and thought I'd done everything correctly but it is failing to locate the keystore file when I build it.

This is the error message I get showing it taking wrong path instead of D:\flutterapps\testapp\key.jks:

PS D:\flutterapps\testapp> flutter build apk
Initializing gradle...                                       1.3s
Resolving dependencies...                                    4.3s
Gradle task 'assembleRelease'...

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:validateSigningRelease'.
> Keystore file 'D:\flutterapps\testapp\android\app\ D: lutterappspublishkey.jks' not found for signing config 'release'.

* Try:
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BUILD FAILED in 4s
Gradle task 'assembleRelease'... Done                        5.3s
Gradle task assembleRelease failed with exit code 1
PS D:\flutterapps\testapp>

Answer 1

On Windows you have to use 2 backslashes to indicate the path separation. In your key.properties, you should have something like this:

storeFile=D:\\flutterapps\\testapp\\key.jks

You don't need to copy your key.jks file to your flutter project.