There is no Xamarin debug.keystore

Question

I am trying to find SHA-1 of a Xamarin.android app to develop an app with visual studio and firebase on windows 7, I followed Microsoft documentations https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/deploy-test/signing/keystore-signature?tabs=windows but it gives me an error : "keystore file does not exist" Please how can i fix this.

Answer 1

Have just encountered this problem. In my case it was with an existing Xamarin Android project on a new machine, new VS2019 install.

The solution:

Create a new Android project, and deploy it to the emulator. This process seemingly creates the keystore.

I just used the template Single View App. Create the new project, select emulator, deploy. It fires up and ... does nothing.

I was then able to return to my real app, and deploy as required.