The signing key mistake that cost me a week on my first Android release

If you've never shipped an Android app to Google Play before, the signing key part is where a lot of people get quietly stuck. It's not a hard concept, but the way Google documents it makes it feel like you're juggling three different keys that could all brick your release if you mess up. Here's what actually went wrong for me the first time. What I thought I was doing I generated a keystore the way most tutorials tell you. Ran keytool, set a password, saved the .jks file somewhere on my machine