Using Google Play app signing feature & Google APIs integration in your app?
If you are using Google Play App Signing, don't forget that release signing-certificate fingerprint needed for Google API credentials is not the regular upload signing keys (SHA-1) you obtain from your app by this method:
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| Upload signing certificate |
You can obtain your release SHA-1 only from App signing page of your Google Play console as shown below:-
If you use Google Play app signing, Google re-signs your app. Thats how your signing-certificate fingerprint is given by Google Play App Signing as shown below:
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| App Signing page - Google Play Console |
You can use this SHA-1 for signing your app with any APIs you use in your app. For instance Google Drive API: you can use the SHA-1 obtained from above step in Google Developer console shown below:
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| Use release SHA-1 |
Check Play console help - Manage your app signing keys for more info by Google Play Console help.
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- Google Play app signing – Android developer can opt-in for app signing and it is permanent. Google Play app signing takes your upload key and re-signs your app before app is delivered to the users. This feature also helps you request for reset of your upload keys in case of lost private keys.
- Do you want to more about fingerprint? Read Public key fingerprint(Wikipedia)
- Google API – Some examples of Google APIs are Google+, Drive, Google Maps.
- Google Play Console – Its the android developer's console to monitor and manage his published apps and related activities. You need to pay a developer fee to get your Google Play Console account to publish apps.
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