Tutorial - create your keystore for Android on Windows

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If you’re stuck with Generating the keystore

First the tutorial tells you to download Hombrew

Important: Please make sure you have Java installed on your machine when generating a keystore. You can install Java through Homebrew. Download Homebrew here if it’s not already installed.

I skipped this part and went to
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#jdk24-windows

Then running the command wouldn’t work

keytool -genkeypair -v -keyalg RSA -keysize 4096 -validity 10000 -keystore KEYSTORE_OUTPUT_FILE.keystore -alias KEY_ALIAS

So I had to create the Path

Nicely enough the AI gave me the way to do it

Step 1: Find the Java JDK bin directory

First, you need to locate the folder where your Java JDK is installed.

• Open File Explorer and navigate to C:\Program Files\Java\ or a similar location.
• You should see a folder with a name like jdk-17.0.2, jdk-21, or something similar.
• Open that folder, and inside you will find a bin folder.
• The full path will look something like this: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-21\bin.
• Copy this full path.

Step 2: Add the bin directory to the PATH environment variable

1. Click on the Start menu and search for “environment variables”.

2. Click on “Edit the system environment variables”. This will open the “System Properties” window.

3. Click the “Environment Variables…” button.
   

   

4. In the “System variables” section at the bottom, find the Path variable and select it.

5. Click the “Edit…” button.
   

   

6. In the “Edit environment variable” window, click “New”.

7. Paste the path you copied in Step 1 (e.g., C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-21\bin).

10. Click “OK” on all the open windows to save the changes.

Step 3: Verify the changes

• Close and reopen your Command Prompt window. This is crucial, as a new instance is required to load the updated environment variables.
• Type the keytool command again:keytool -genkeypair -v -keyalg RSA -keysize 4096 -validity 10000 -keystore KEYSTORE_OUTPUT_FILE.keystore -alias KEY_ALIAS
• This time, instead of an error, you should be prompted to enter a password for the keystore.

The tutorial is finished here

— BONUS —

You may want to verify if your password is correct and get your SHA-1 fnigerprint now
If you’re going to use the Google GeoCoding API

Type this command

keytool -list -v -keystore your_keystore_name -alias your_alias_name

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You’re going to get the SHA-1 of your keystore