I am very new to the android world and I was trying to just get to run a simple hello world app on my phone. when I tried this I learnt that the APK generated by an android studio is an unsigned one. So to sign this I have gone through the process of creating a Key store and then a private Key, its alias and I was successful in signing the APK and installing on my phone and running it too.
Then I went through this link for adding signing configurations to the gradle to automatically sign the release with the newly created key store file. I have followed the steps n the above link properly and did not miss anything but still when I finish my signing configurations I have an error saying
Gradle project sync failed.Basic functionality(eg. editing, debugging) will not work properly.
Error:(19, 0) Could not find property 'config' on SigningConfig container.
I was taken by a surprise! and now I am not able to sign my APKs manually too. Now when I try to sign manually, it says the gradle is not in sync
I guess this file will be of help to help me solve this error. build.gradle of the project. I am trying to understand is what is mentioned here is same as the one I configured through the Android Studio UI while making the signing configurations.
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
android {
signingConfigs {
release {
storeFile file("<path>\\firstKeystore.jks")
storePassword "******"
keyAlias "usual password"
keyPassword "******"
}
}
compileSdkVersion 19
buildToolsVersion '20.0.0'
defaultConfig {
applicationId 'com.tech.vasanth.newsfeed'
minSdkVersion 19
targetSdkVersion 19
versionCode 1
versionName '1.0'
}
buildTypes {
release {
runProguard false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
signingConfig signingConfigs.config
debuggable false
jniDebugBuild false
renderscriptDebugBuild false
zipAlign true
}
debug {
signingConfig signingConfigs.config
}
}
productFlavors {
}
}
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
}