Android Studio: cannot recover key

Question

I have searched StackOverflow for a while, but I just wanted to make sure...

I wiped my laptop a while ago, and backed up all my files. I have my android.jks file ba

Answer 1

It may help someone.

Some days before I backed up my android project on gitlab and then installed windows 10. After that I cloned it. I knew the key alias and both the passwords exactly.

Then while generating signed apk I entered those credentials but failed.

I had placed the jks file in the app folder. I removed it from there and created separate folder in root folder of android project and placed jks file there.

Then I tried clean, rebuild project and then restarted android studio. Finally it built the signed apk :D