Android Error Building Signed APK: keystore.jks not found for signing config 'externalOverride'

Question

I get this error when I try to Build Signed APK. I recently upgraded to API 23 but Generated APK:s successfully after that. Im confused. Asking for help and advise how to solve

Answer 1

TL;DR: Check the path to your keystore.jks file.

In my case, here's what happened:

I moved the project folder of my entire app to another location on my PC. Much later, I wanted to generate a signed apk file. Unknown to me, the default location of the path to my keystore.jks had been reset to a wrong location and I had clicked okay. Since it could not find a keystore at the path I selected, I got that error.

The solution was to check whether the path to my keystore.jks file was correct.