Unable to get debug signature key while setting up SDK/Eclipse on OSX

I installed the Android SDK and Eclipse on OSX. When I check my ~/.android folder there is no debug.keystore. My understanding though is that it gets created when you run, build, or clean. I create a simple HelloWorld project and set up my run configurations. When I try to run I see the following error:

Error generating final archive: Unable t开发者_如何学Co get debug signature key HelloAndroid Unknown Android Packaging Problem

I then see that the debug.keystore still isn't created.

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For anyone else out there that this happens to... it was a permissions problem on the .android folder. For some reason I didn't have write access to the folder and subfolders set.

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I too had the error

Error generating final archive: Unable to get debug signature key

It seemed I did not have a default keystore. So I created one.

It still didn't work even though I noticed in my Eclipse Preferences in Android > Build that my default keystore was recognized.

When I chose it AGAIN as my custom keystore, I got an error saying

can't find debug key in keystore

which then brought to my attention although I created the key store, I had not created the debug key that is contained within.

I went back to my terminal application and entered:

keytool -keygen -v -keystore debug.keystore -alias androiddebugkey -storepass android

from within my .android directory, and all was good.

Macintosh OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion, Eclipse v3.7.2 Juno Android

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I had a similar issue, and Jody G's fix pointed me in the right direction. In my case, debug.keystore existed, but it was a symlink pointing to a file that had been deleted. Getting rid of the symlink forced Eclipse to regenerate the file.

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Make sure you have the following:

• keystore is in .android/debug.keystore and is readable
• .android is writtable
• keystore password is "android"
• key alias is androiddebugkey
• no password on the key (to remove a password on a key, set the password to the same password as the keystore itself, here: "android").