Android signing with Ant

Question

Using Ant, I\'m trying to build an Android application in release mode for distribution. My problem is at the signing process. I\'ve created a keystore and alias via Eclipse

Answer 1

The long term solution is to patch Ant's signjar task:

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52344

The new attributes were added to signjar in Ant 1.8.3, but Android's build script (as of r19) has not yet been modified to utilize them:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19567

In the meantime, "presetdef" may provide a workaround: