How to Recover Signed APK Key Store Password in Android Studio
Believe me, it is frustrating to face the problem when you forget the Key Store Password in Android Studio. For most of the
time we search on Internet for an actual solution. But getting right
answer is not an easy task. Most websites just upload only one method to
solve an error but that one method is not enough to work.
And again we are back to google and search it again for a correct
solution. Most of the developers are faced the problem to get forgot Key Store Password in Android Studio. Do not worry if you are suffering from this problem, this
article will provide you to provide solution how to recover Signed APK Key Store password.
Trick 1:
Step 1: Open folder/ directory where your all Android project are stored or project folder.
Like \AndroidStudioProjects.
Step 2: Now Open your project named folder for eg. my project folder name is cryptoapp.
Step 3: Now, List showing as below...
Step 4: Now Open .../app/ Folder and find the .jks file. As showing in image below.
Step 5 : Now open .jks file.
On the line 1 text are readable form in English language is your Key Store Password of your Signed APK Project.
According to my eg. in this case password is prolang@ is my project key store password. As Shown in image below :
Try this as your password it will works for you. If it is not work go through trick 2.
Trick 2:
Step 1 : Open \.gradle\3.3\taskArtifacts\ or find taskArtifacts.bin file in your android project folder/directory.
Step 2: Now open this file in Any Editor use Notepad++.
Now find this word œpackagingOptions.pickFirsts in this file, it occurs so many times, so we found when this word have a readable string as prefix. Most of the time we found to words first androidœpackagingOptions.pickFirsts so, forgot/leave this one. Now goto second click on find button this time found another readable prefix of œpackagingOptions.pickFirsts that prefix is the key store password of your android app project. In this eg. I found prolang@œpackagingOptions.pickFirsts as i said that prolang@ is my password, which is same as i found in trick 1 , as shown in image below.
I hope this time you recovered your forgot key store password of your Android app project.
I Hope these tricks are helpful to you. If not then comment as below...
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