Last time around I talked a little bit about my
Game
of Life wallpaper.
It has been a week. In that time I’ve had a small bit of success, and I
am quite happy with the results.
35 people have software that I wrote on their phones, and one of
them was even kind enough to give me a five star rating. It probably
sounds like I’m making a big deal over 35 people, and I am. I write
software all day long that people use due to contractual obligation.
I’ve never been good at marketing. The Android Market provides a
ready built distribution channel that beats any of my previous
attempts at software distribution, and that has me genuinely excited.
I finally rounded off enough of the rough edges in my
Game of Life wallpaper
that I decided to put it in to the Android Market this afternoon. Publishing
the application was easy enough, and seeing the application appear immediately
in my search results was fun, but my heart sank when I tried to install the
application on my Nexus One.
Package file was not signed correctly
I pulled the application back out of the marketplace to debug it by
installing from a local web server. I tried recreating my signing certificate
9 different ways, all of them resulting the same failed installation. Finally
I decided to start fresh, and I deleted the application before attempting to
reinstall. That did the trick, and it worked for each of the 9 cert variations
I had created.
Be forewarned, this might not solve your problem. It looks like there are
a number of issues that can cause this error message or ones like it. If you
are still having trouble, I’d recommend watching the output of logcat while
running through the installation process.
And in the unlikely even that you came here to learn more about my
Game of Life wallpaper, check out the video below:
