I lost my Keystore file

Mohanasundharam Murugan 1 Reputation point
2021-11-10T14:48:17.933+00:00

I got support from Google Play Console. I have generated the .jks & .pem file and sent the .pem file to the support team. They've updated everything as per the .pem file. But, Now i don't know how to generate apk from Visual Studio by using JKS or PEM files. Because I suspect the Visual Studio only supports the .keystore files to generate the apk.

Kindly help me to recover this issue.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-11-11T07:04:18.357+00:00

    Hello,​

    Welcome to our Microsoft Q&A platform!

    I cannot find way to generate the APK file by using JKS or PEM files in the Visual Studio. If you cannot find the .keystore files that generate by VS, you can find it by following path.(The AppData folder is hidden by default and you may need to unhide it to access it.)

       The resulting keystore resides in the following location:  
         
       C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Mono for Android\Keystore\ALIAS\ALIAS.keystore  
         
       For example, using chimp as the alias, the above steps would create a new signing key in the following location:  
         
       C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Mono for Android\Keystore\chimp\chimp.keystore  
    

    Here is a article about it.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/deploy-test/signing/?tabs=windows#create-a-new-certificate

    Best Regards,

    Leon Lu


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  2. Sylendra JR 1 Reputation point
    2021-12-01T18:35:21.88+00:00

    @Mohanasundharam Murugan Did you able to generate apk using the .jks file ? I'm also facing the same issue.

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