More detailed instructions on obtaining the MD5 needed to obtain the correct API Key.

GoatTeaBlend

I have been attempting to find my MD5 for many days now. I continue to get errors when trying to get the MD5 using command prompt. I was wondering if there was anyone in the community who would be willing to walk me through this with a little more detail. I have tried to follow the instruction provided by Gamesalad and Amazon, but I am a bit lost...maybe because of the terminology involved. For example it says to enter a certain sring of commands in "terminal" and I am assuming terminal is iOS's version of Command Promt. I am so very lost and really need a "jargon " explained version of a walk-through on this. Thank you.

GoatTeaBlend

I finally got it to work. I used the debug.keystore that was located at C:\Users\my_windows_username\.android\debug.keystore. I found the MD5 footprint using Eclipse. On the navigation toolbar at the top I clicked "Window" and then clicked "preferences." Inside of the preferences menu I clicked "Android" and then "Build." The location of the debug.keystore is displayed along with the MD5 Footprint. In Gamesalad under "Tool' >> "Apk signer" I navigated to the debug.keystore in the Keystore selection area. The default password is Android. The I selected the default existing key, which was androiddebugkey and typed in the password (Default is Android for this as well). Then when generating the API within the Amazon Dev Portal I ensured the key name matched up with the key I used "androiddebugkey", the package name matched what I was going to put in the package name on the Gamesalad Publishing area (com.mygamestudioname.mygame), and then I used the MD5 for the debug.keystore file that I found by using Eclipse. I still don't know how to find the MD5 using comands. I just get errors, but for now while I am just testing this will work. I was able to log into GameCircle on my Kindle and now I just need to test Leaderboard, In-Apps, and Achievements.

BBEnk

I don't have a PC but on Mac you can just type this in terminal type keytool -list -keystore "put a space here"then drag your keystore file into terminal and hit enter should ask for password then output MD5.

GoatTeaBlend

I tried that. Although it is suppose to work the same way on PC from what I have been told, I just got errors. I am working on finding out why I can't do it the traditional way and when I do I will update this post. Thanks for the response >-

GoatTeaBlend

figured it all out now. I will post a link to a tutorial video soon so anyone can do this easily.

djv1120

Have you made the tutorial video yet? I'm having some issues trying to get this set up on my windows computer.

dandeto

I can't do it on Mac!! It didn't work!!

dandeto

I can't do it on Mac!! It didn't work!!

sickpillow

I was pulling my hair out and finally figured it out... this only for osx / mac folks:
The command "keytool -list -keystore "put a space here"" does indeed work, HOWEVER your keystore HAS TO BE in the root of your user directory (where the download, documents, applications, desktop folders reside)...

After I put the keystore there it worked, so good luck!