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Asked: 2026-06-16T01:44:26+00:00

I am desperately trying to upload an Android-App that has been developed and packaged

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I am desperately trying to upload an Android-App that has been developed and packaged with Adobe Flex SDK 4.6 using Intellij IDEA. The PKCS#12 was created using openSSL (I just want to mention this, but I don’t think this is the problem).

Everything worked fine until I got the silly desire to publish the App into the Google Play store. It destroyed all my dreams with this simple sentence:

Google Play requires versionCode to be set to a positive 32-bit integer in AndroidManifest.xml.

Okay, its not a secret that you can not define the Android versionCode from Flex SDK directly. You have to use the -Tag, which I did. Actually I tried this in several different combinations (of course only one at a time) like:

<versionNumber>0</versionNumber>
<versionNumber>1</versionNumber>
<versionNumber>2</versionNumber>
<versionNumber>0.0.1</versionNumber>
<versionNumber>1.0.0</versionNumber>
<versionNumber>2.0.1</versionNumber>

… and whatever you can imagine …

But whatever I did, when I upload the APK, the status bar is going to 100% and starts counting backwards as if it was laughing at me and ends up with the above error message.

From the Adobe Community I learned that on Android, the AIR version a.b.c is translated to the Android version code using the formula: a*1000000 + b*1000 + c.

Well, using this formula all my values for the -Tag should become a 32-Bit Integer.

Any Ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The Flex SDK has a bug which is listed here so that I had to choose a workaround that I would like to share with you here.

    My solution is to unpack the APK-File, edit the AndroidManifest.xml, pack the APK-File again and sign it. I use the apktool and jarsigner (part of JDK).

    java -jar apktool.jar d MyApp.apk // unpack
// edit AndroidManifest.xml
java -jar apktool.jar b MyApp_patched.apk // repack
jarsigner -verbose -sigalg MD5withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -storetype pkcs12 -keystore ../AndroidCertificates.p12 MyApp_fixed.apk "1" // sign
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