Android app crashes on addAccountExplicitly(account, password, null);

Question

After a successful basic authentication I want to add an account for later use. When I tried to create this account using the following code:

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Answer 1

In my case it was happening that I had another app installed on the device with the same account name and type, but with different signing cert that the one I was trying to install.

So it was crashing the app.

Checking the android doc for the method addAccountExplicity, it says:

This method requires the caller to have a signature match with the authenticator that owns the specified account.

That was my problem