Category Archives: Mobile

Android apk keystore signing for store

Keystore

First think you need to do is to generate keystore file for project. Store apps needs to be signed with that and its always good to have separated keystore for each app. Keep that securely cause you need this everytime youre updating your app on store.

You can generate also using various IDEs like NetBeans, Eclipse, Android Studio and so on, but in this time we’re using command line.

user@host:~/home $ keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias alias_name -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

Signing

After you have built your apk (unsigned) you need to use following command to sign this with previously generated keystore.

user@host:~/home $ jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore my-release-key.keystore my_application.apk alias_name

Validate signed apk:

user@host:~/home $ jarsigner -verify -verbose -certs my_application.apk

Align

Finally align you apk to optimize it and after that it’s ready to be submitted into store.

user@host:~/home $ zipalign -v 4 my_application.apk my_application_aligned.apk

 

Most promising mobile UI frameworks

Simple list of some well known mobile UI frameworks you may want to use on your next mobile web project.

jQuery Mobile
Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets

jQTouch
A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, Android, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices

Sencha Touch
The First HTML5 Mobile Web App Framework

Jo
The simple app framework for HTML5. For iOS, Android, webOS, BlackBerry, Chrome OS & anything else with HTML5

iUI
User Interface Framework for Mobile Web Devices

SproutCore
SproutCore is an open-source framework for building blazingly fast, innovative user experiences on the web