Applications distributed on the Android Market are required to have been digitally signed with a 25 year code signing certificate. There are a number of different ways we can go about generating a code signing certificate for Android applications. We will demonstrate how to generate such a certificate using Flash Professional within this recipe.
In Flash Professional, perform the following actions to create a self-signed digital certificate:
1. With a project open which targets AIR for Android, open the Properties panel and click the little wrench icon beside the Player selection box. This will open the AIR for Android Settings dialog:
2. Within the AIR for Android Settings dialog, click the Create… button to open the Create Self-Signed Digital Certificate dialog window:
3. Now that the Create Self-Signed Digital Certificate dialog is before us, we will enter the required information and choose a name and location...