get android release Certificate Fingerprints

Question

I am using Android Studio on Mac El Capitan. How do I get the release Certificate Fingerprints? I need it for Firebase. I am not sure exactly how to get it.

Answer 1

Just to test it (with the debug fingerprint), run the following command in any directory with the terminal.

$ keytool -exportcert -alias androiddebugkey -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore -list -v

Then copy the SHA1 value and paste it into your Firebase console.

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Be careful, the above will work for the debug environment, if you want to set up the release fingerprint you will have to create a keystore, check out this post to see how to do it, and then run the same command but instead of ~/.android/debug.keystore you should put ~/YOUR/PATH/TO/KEYSTORE

$ keytool -exportcert -alias androiddebugkey -keystore ~/YOUR/PATH/TO/KEYSTORE -list -v

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Answer 2

As this question is to get RELEASE certificate fingerprint, easy way to get RELEASE fingerprint is,

Open terminal

Go to directory where project's .jks file located

Finally get it by,

keytool -exportcert -alias ALIAS_NAME -keystore KEYSTORE_NAME_WITH_EXTENSION -list -v