INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES on installing rebuilt apk

[Greg Milette]

I take a perfectly good .apk file

run:
./apktool d myapp.apk ./myappcontents

./apktool b ./myappcontents redo.apk

adb install redo.apk

Then I get this error:

Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES]

Any idea why?

Thanks!

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Greg Milette <greg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I take a perfectly good .apk file
>
> run:
> ./apktool d myapp.apk ./myappcontents
> ./apktool b ./myappcontents redo.apk
> adb install redo.apk
>
> Then I get this error:
> Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES]

You did not sign the APK after re-assembling.

Tools like Eclipse perform the signing for you.
http://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html may
help. Debug signing is OK.

Jeff

[Ryszard Wiśniewski]

I think there are many tools available to simplify this process. I won't recommend you any, search for keywords like: apk signer auto, etc.

[Greg Milette]

There is this:

http://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html

But it is indeed complex to understand. I get this error:

$ jarsigner -verbose -sigalg MD5withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore keystore release.apk 

Enter Passphrase for keystore: 

jarsigner: Certificate chain not found for: release.apk.  release.apk must reference a valid KeyStore key entry containing a private key and corresponding public key certificate chain.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Ryszard Wiśniewski <brut...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think there are many tools available to simplify this process. I won't recommend you any, search for keywords like: apk signer auto, etc.

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[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Greg Milette <greg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is this:
> http://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html
>
> But it is indeed complex to understand. I get this error:
>
> $ jarsigner -verbose -sigalg MD5withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore keystore
> release.apk
> Enter Passphrase for keystore:
> jarsigner: Certificate chain not found for: release.apk. release.apk must
> reference a valid KeyStore key entry containing a private key and
> corresponding public key certificate chain.

Argument placement is critical. Its a lot like LD and "libraries must
be last". Here's what I use when using a debug key:

jarsigner -verbose -keystore C:\Users\<user>\.android\debug.keystore
-storepass android -keypass android -digestalg SHA1 -sigalg
SHA1withRSA <package name>.apk androiddebugkey

Jeff

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mar 27, 6:33 am, Greg Milette <grego...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...

>
> Then I get this error:

> *Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_NO_CERTIFICATES]
> *
>
> Any idea why?
A good treatment of signing (both apps and platform components if
building the AOSP tree) can be found at "Android Security
Underpinnings from Android Builders Summit", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS46492qyJ8.
Check near 13:00 minutes.

My apologies if you are not interested.

Jeff

[ly...@hotmail.com]

The Jeff´s solution works fine. Only replace the <...> with your data.