Unable to upload Phonegap Build APK to play.google - You uploaded a debuggable APK error

Question

Trying to upload a release version APK generated from Phonegap Build to the Google play store.

Getting an error as follows:

Upload failed

You uploaded a debuggable APK. For security reasons you need to disable debugging before it can be published in Google Play.

But this is a release version? It is not in Debug mode - why this error now?

If I need to add something to the config XML to set debugging to False, what would that be?

I repeat that this is a phonegap Build project - so all I have is html, css, js and image files. These are then zipped up and uploaded to build.phonegap and they generate the IPA and APK etc etc

Answer 1

Martina is correct, but I want to add more details:

You must create a signing key and upload it to PhoneGapBuild to use.

Create a Keystore for Signing your build using a java utility called "keytool"

1. Find keytool (it comes with java). I found mine at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin
2. Open command prompt and enter the following commands

3. cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin

   (use whatever dir you found the keytool in)

4. keytool -genkey -v -keystore C:\DIR\APPNAME.keystore -alias APPNAME -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

   (Change DIR and APPNAME to something appropriate)

5. Enter the keystore password (remember this)

6. Answer the questions about yourself: your name, organization, location, etc.
7. DONE: The keystore will be created for your app

Remaining Steps:

• Upload that to PhoneGap Build.
• Unlock the keystore for 1 hour by entering your keystore password
• Build the app

This will create a release version of the .apk that can be uploaded to Google Play.