Android Which debug.keystore file is IntelliJ signing my application?

Question

I am trying to debug why I cannot get MapView to work in debug mode, and it looks like the application is not signed with the debug.keystore file with which I created the API key. The only version of the file called debug.keystore on my system is located in the C:\Users\<user>\.android debug.keystore folder, as expected, but after completely deleting this file and then restoring the unsigned application, it still works in debug mode and doesn’t regenerates this file as if it were signing with a different certificate. Any idea what is going on here?

Thanks!

Answer 1

So it turned out that there is another debug.keystore in the android-sdk\\.android debug.keystore . I don’t know why I didn’t see this when I was looking for a disk before, but now it is the only one on the machine and, of course, it is restored during rebuilding. I don't know why it does not look in C:\Users as documented, but creating an api map against this keystore fixes my MapView problem.

Answer 2

Please double check that you deleted the debug.keystore file from the correct user account:

 c:\Users\%USERNAME%\.android\debug.keystore 

On my system, it will be generated as soon as I remove it and rebuild the project in IntelliJ IDEA.