Android Question Compiling

[Marc Roy]

I can't seem to find any information on this. When I compile an app (any app) in b4a, it times out at 120 seconds and I get an "Signing package file (private key) Error".

Sometimes the package is signed within 120 and the compile completes. I know I can increase the time out in b4a, but I get the impression that there is something wrong. I tried to reinstall a couple of times with no change.

I don't know if this is relevant, but a certain behavior I noticed, when the app does compile successfully, anytime I recompile with little change in my code, the "Signing package" section of the compile has no delay.

Does anyone know why this is happening and are there any suggestions?

 

[somed3v3loper]

In which folder do you save your project ?
Do you use lots of libraries and/or resource files ?

 

[Marc Roy]

The project is located in a set of sub folders off my desktop. I'm compiling Pack Droid which uses libGDX. "Signing package file (private key)" takes over 100 seconds.

 

[ilan]

try to create a new key. where do you save your keystore file?
what b4a version are you using?

it is recommended to install b4a in a different folder then Program Files. try to install it to c:\ and put also the keystore file to that folder and load it from there.

 

[Erel]

Try to temporary disable the antivirus and see whether it helps.

The signing package step should be very quick (less than 0.5 second).

 

[Marc Roy]

This problem is is with Java, not B4A. My computer has been running the same installation of windows for over 6 years. After installation of different versions of Java over the years, the settings just simply got messed up.

I've been trying a lot of stuff over the last 2 days (installing, reinstalling, un-installing java of different versions and so on) including the suggestions here (thank you btw).

I don't know if this was the right solution to my problem but I just don't want to waste any more time on this. I finally did a fresh complete reinstall of Windows 7 and all of its software and drivers.

Now it compiles much faster, including the signing of the package which is now within 2 seconds. It also cleared out other compile errors I was manually resolving by terminating Java within task manager.