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Android: Signing APK with ApkSigner with multi certificate


Problem is my app apk is signed with sha1 signer #1 and sha1 signer #2 using jarsigner. meaning multisigned using both first-release-key.jks and second-release-key.jks which i believe now is wrong. Apk shows both certs. Now trying to sign apk with apksigner using sha2 signer #1 and then sha2 signer #2 is failing.

https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/apksigner

Usually, you sign an APK using only one signer. In the event that you need to sign an APK using multiple signers, use the --next-signer option to separate the set of general options to apply to each signer:

apksigner sign [signer_1_options] --next-signer [signer_2_options] app-name.apk

apksigner sign --ks sample.keystore --ks-key-alias abc --ks-pass pass:xyz --key-pass pass:somepass --next-signer --ks someks.jks --ks-key-alias key0 --ks-pass pass:123456 --key-pass pass:123456 MSIGN.apk

When --next-signer used with above is used apksigner gets error to use "SigningCertificateLineage"

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Multiple signing certificates provided for use with APK Signature Scheme v3 without an accompanying SigningCertificateLineage

Source code:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/apksig/+/master/src/main/java/com/android/apksig/SigningCertificateLineage.java

Anyone help where to get SigningCertificateLineage and accompanying SigningCertificateLineage while using --next-signer hence apk is multi signed?

Thanks


Solution

  • Found the solution.

    1)Get the certificate lineage usign below.

    apksigner rotate --out /path/to/new/file --old-signer \ --ks my.keystore --new-signer --ks mynew.jks

    2)Multi sign using both the certificate passwords.

    apksigner sign --lineage mylineagefile --ks my.keystore --next-signer --ks mynew.jks my.apk

    https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/apksig/+/refs/heads/master/src/apksigner/java/com/android/apksigner