How to retrieve Key Alias and Key Password for signed APK in android studio migrated from Eclipse

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I have an android app currently published in Google Play which I update periodically  I follow the following process to sign the app before a new push    Press right-mouse on the project  the  Android tools  -  export signed application package Provide keystore password Sign your app Upload the apk file into Google Play Developer Console  Recently I have imported the project from Eclipse to Android Studio and continued working on Android Studio  Now I am planning to push a fix in the app  I have figured that I have this option to sign apk in android studio  Build -  Generate Signed apk -   As per my understanding  for my android app I have to use the same key store and key store password which I used earlier to push updates into Google Play  Also here it s asking for Key Alias and Key Password  I don t remember the Key Alias and Key password number 4 input in the image  while signing apk in Eclipse  Any suggestion what can I do now  If I already know my keystore and keystore password  is there an way to retrieve the key alias and alias key password   Update  Now I can retrieve my key alias through keytool -list -v -keystore name keystore command

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I tried a lot of solves and only that work with me and i will share it with you        search by Ctrl   F

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On the Mac  I found the keystore file path  password  key alias and key password in an earlier log report before I updated Android Studio   I launched the Console utility and scrolled down to   Library Logs -  AndroidStudioBeta - idea log 1  or any old log number   Then I searched for    android injected signing store    and found this from an earlier date   -Pandroid injected signing store file  Users myuserid AndroidStudioProjects keystore keystore jks   -Pandroid injected signing store password mystorepassword   -Pandroid injected signing key alias myandroidkey   -Pandroid injected signing key password mykeypassword    On Windows  you can find your lost key password in below path  Project  gradle 2 14 1 taskArtifacts taskArtifacts bin or   taskHistory taskHistory bin    open the file using appropriate tools e g  NotePad   and search with the part of the password that you remember  You will find it definitely  Else  try searching with this string  signingConfig storePassword    Note  I have experienced the same and i am able to find it  In case if you didn t find may be you cleared all the cache and temp files

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Just Open yourApp jks file with Notepad you will find Keystore  amp  Alias name there

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In any case you are confused with your password You can use hit and trial  It will ask you for password If it right then it will show you the list    List item     keytool -list -v -keystore filename

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Just open the key file   jks file  with notepad    You will get the alias name in the first line

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Click the KeyAlias you will get to know the alias name

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You can find your keystore details without using password as following way   Execute the command  keytool -list -keystore  lt path gt   in command prompt   You can find the Keytool in java folder in my machine I could find form the following path  C  Program Files  x86  Java jdk1 7 0 71 bin gt  keytool -list -keystore C   lt YourKeystore gt  Keystore   Then it will ask you to enter the password  Here you don t need to enter the password instead of that press up arrow button and enter it  then the same details will be display with warning message as below                         WARNING WARNING WARNING                            The integrity of the information stored in your keystore       has NOT been verified   In order to verify its integrity       you must provide your keystore password                                                 WARNING WARNING WARNING                         Keystore type  JKS Keystore provider  SUN      Your keystore contains 1 entry      samplekey  Apr 26  2017  PrivateKeyEntry  Certificate fingerprint    SHA1   XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX

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If looking in the logs doesn t help  you can also try to brute-force the password - check method 3 on this post - Android KeyStore Password Recover   This SO post has more answers as well

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You might like to try this password breaker   http   maxcamillo github io android-keystore-password-recover index html  I was using the Dictionary Attack method  It worked for me because there were only a few combinations to my password that I could think of

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If you happen to be on MacOS and checked the  save password  box in Android Studio  you can recover the password from Keychain Access    Launch Keychain Access from Applications Utilities  Select password in Category  on the left panel  On the search box top right  type your Android app name or part of the app name  You will see the result line  if you had saved the password  Double click on it  check the show password checkbox  give your system password when asked  and it will show your keystore password

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Recover your keystore password  100  working  Projects- gt taskHistory bin    Find- gt KeyAlias      Note  Click and View my images for your reference

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I have found my key password in below path  Project  gradle 2 14 1 taskArtifacts taskArtifacts bin open the file and search with the part of the password that you remember  You will found it definitely   Also  You can refer this answer stackoverflow com a 43007357 7089151

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In windows - Just open your keystore file in notepad  and on very first line - you can see your alias written in English letter

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Based on gkemp answer  On Windows  I found the keystore file path  password  key alias and key password in an earlier log report before I updated Android Studio   From windows file explorer c  Users your pc name  AndroidStudio1 4  your android studio version  system log idea log 1  or any old log number   Then I searched for    android injected signing store    and found this from an earlier date   -Pandroid injected signing store file  path to your keystore  -Pandroid injected signing store password yourstorepassword -Pandroid injected signing key alias yourkeyalias -Pandroid injected signing key password yourkeypassword

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Yes  you can find your lost key in the task artifacts from Android Studio   Project  gradle 2 14 1 taskArtifacts taskArtifacts bin   for updated verssion of android studio the path is   Project  gradle 5 1 1 executionHistory executionHistory bin   Open the file and search with the part of the password that you remember   Sample this will be in that bin file   signingConfig keyAlias  key name  signingConfig keyPassword  key password  signingConfig storePassword  Store Password    You can search with this string    signingConfig storePassword    or any string given in the sample string  Note  I have experienced the same thing and I am able to find it in the above path  In case if you didn t find may be you cleared all the cache and temp files

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In ubuntu  we can find all password related to keystore from the given path    home user  AndroidStudio2 2 current version  system log idea log x older versions    edit the file and search android injected signing store   then you can find the passwords   -Pandroid injected signing store file  path to your keystore  -Pandroid injected signing store password yourstorepassword -Pandroid injected signing key alias yourkeyalias -Pandroid injected signing key password yourkeypassword

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To just restore the KEY ALIAS  Type the below command on terminal     keytool -list -v -keystore  lt storekey gt    It will give information starting       Your keystore contains 2 entries      You can look for the alias name there

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how to retrieve keystore password   You cannot retrieve the password  If you forgot it  you are doomed      how to retrieve key alias     keytool -list -v -keystore  lt store gt    But you need keystore password for this first   EDIT     What I don t remember is the  Key Password     No password can be restored  If you forgot key password for good then you are doomed too and there s no other way than trying harder to recall it  There s no password reset thing nor anything like that    Be aware that if you forgot your password for good then you will issue no further updates to your app  docs       Warning  Keep your keystore and private key in a safe and secure   place  and ensure that you have secure backups of them  If you publish   an app to Google Play and then lose the key with which you signed your   app  you will not be able to publish any updates to your app  since   you must always sign all versions of your app with the same key

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I finally could figure the issue out    To get the Key Alias  I copied the keytool exe and my keystore file into C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 71 bin folder  Then from command prompt I wrote  keytool -list -v -keystore  lt name gt  keystore It will also ask for keystore password then  Then it will show you the key alias and Certificate fingerprints and other info   Then I again tried to Generate Signed Apk for the project  I provided keystore  keystore password  key alias and provided the same password  Then it asks for master password  I tried with the same and it failed  With the reset option I  reset the master password here

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Android Studio 3 0 below working method  Find your old zipped project  If you have built the apk  you ll find the password in file   Project  gradle 2 14 1 taskArtifacts taskArtifacts bin   Pandroid injected signing store password password  If you don t have zipped project  search your git repositories if you have  gradle folder pushed or not  Otherwise you ll have to recover files and search files by content  Pandroid injected signing store password

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Unfortunately solutions provided above  aren t beginner friendly   It s  keytool -list -v -keystore keystore name jks

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