How to Publish a App Inventor Application to the Android Market - wikiHow

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This tutorial will show you how to format your App Inventor application to be published at the Android Market. You can use a Mac(which I use) or a PC

Steps

1. Download the application APK to your Mac or PC
   
2. Use apktool to decompile the APK
   
   • apktool d -s yourapp.apk
     
3. Edit what you want(i.e. Icon, App Name, Permissions...)
   
4. Compile the package again
   
   • apktool b yourapp
     
5. Sign the APK using your own keystore
   
   • jarsigner -verbose -keystore my-release-key.keystore my_application.apk alias_name
     
6. Verify if the APK is correctly signed
   
   • jarsigner -verify -verbose -certs my_application.apk
     
7. Align the APK
   
   • zipalign -v 4 your_project_name-unaligned.apk your_project_name.apk
     
8. Your application is ready to go!
   
9. Publish at the Android Market
   

Tips

• For further informations and help about Signing and Aligning visit Signing Your Applications | Android Developers
  

Things You'll Need

• App Inventor access
  
• Android Market developer account
  
• apktool
  
• Mac or PC
  
• Patience
  

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