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 PowerFlasher FDT within this recipe.
In FDT, perform the following actions to create a self-signed digital certificate:
1. Click upon the small arrow next to the Run icon in the top menu and choose Run Configurations… from the sub menu that appears. This will open the Run Configurations dialog:
2. With the Run Configurations dialog window now open, double-click the FDT AIR Application Release menu item to create a new configuration. Choose the Certificate tab and to enter the required information, choosing a name and location for the certificate. Once everything has been entered properly, we will click Create Certificate to have...