Robotium: How an .apk app can be re-signed in order to test it with Robotium?

Question

I'm just trying to test an android application using Robotium. The issue I have is that I don't manage to re-sign the application in order to start a test project in Eclipse. I've followed the tutorial from http://code.google.com/p/robotium/wiki/RobotiumForAPKFiles but with no success.

1. I've generated a .keystore file: keytool -genkey -v -keystore myCertificate1.keystore -alias myKey1 -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 20000
2. Running the jarsigner command: jarsigner -verbose -keystore Certificate1.keystore path\appname.apk Key1
3. And I've got an error: Certificate chain not found for: Key1. Key1 must reference a valid KeyStore key entry containing a private key and corresponding public key certificate chain.

Could anyone point me in any direction ?

Answer 1

You're giving your new key an alias "myKey1", but then you're trying to sign with "Key1" which (I presume) either does not exist or at the least reference the wrong key.