apksigner not accepting password

Question

Up until now I had been signing my apks with the following method:

jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore {keystore-file} {apk-file} {key

Answer 1

use it this way

./apksigner sign --ks test.jks --ks-key-alias test --ks-pass pass:testtest --key-pass pass:testtest Test_Aligned.apk

Answer 2

I cannot vote/comment yet, but +1 for max's fix:

./apksigner sign --ks test.jks --ks-key-alias test --ks-pass pass:testtest --key-pass pass:testtest Test_Aligned.apk

Prefixing my passwords with "pass:" worked for me

--ks-pass pass:MyPassword
--key-pass pass:MyPassword

Answer 3

Here's what worked for me, I changed this:

--ks-pass "MyPassword"

To this:

--ks-pass pass:"MyPassword"

A weird API to work with... but it worked!

Answer 4

The original answer can be found on the comments of the question, I am moving it here in order to mark the question as answered.

Although I am still not sure 100% of the details, the problem was the password I was using for my keystore contained special characters (* and !). After changing the password to an alphanumeric format, the problem was solved. So it seems like apksigner does not accept the same format for passwords than jarsigner.

Answer 5

Wow, I didn't know you could change passwords in the keystore.

Anyway I had this exact problem and it turns out you don't need to change your password. The trick is to set options

--ks-pass stdin --key-pass stdin

This is supposedly default behavior but in my case it only worked if I specifically included these.

Execute the command, you'll be asked to enter passwords, and it works even with characters such as !.