There is no debug.keystore in .android folder

Question

Someone I\'m helping with an application needs to locate her debug.keystore - mine is in my .android folder, but when I navigate there on her computer it is not there.

Answer 1

The debug.keystore is created automatically on first build that uses it.

Answer 2

debug.keystore automatically generate after the run of the app debugging

Answer 3

To get the key you should first run the app on a device(real device or emulator). While debugging the file is automatically created.

Answer 4

I don't know how it work magically! I deleted my debug.keystore, build my project again and look for debug.keystore in default location ~/.android/debug.keystore, din't find debug.keystore.

Again build project and look for debug.keystore, no luck!

Then I open eclipse go to Windows -> Preferences,Select Android -> Build See Default debug keystore: "Path".

Now again looked for debug.keystore in default location ~/.android/debug.keystore, found debug.keystore. Tried so many times, it worked.