[mythtv-users] installing mythfrontend apk on Shield TV

[James Abernathy]

On 2/5/19 10:33 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>
>
> On 2/5/19 9:49 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
>> What is the proper way of installing the mythfrontend APK on a Shield 
>> TV?
>>
>> I've done it with the version pointed to by the Android Mythtv wiki 
>> but I have not been able to upgrade it with install -r option. I have 
>> to uninstall it and then reinstall.
>>
>> Not sure if that is the same problem I'm encountering with a version 
>> of the APK I built from source.  That error is:
>>
>> adb install -r mythfrontend-20190205-arm64-v30.0-13-g1c2068c62b.apk
>> Failed to install 
>> mythfrontend-20190205-arm64-v30.0-13-g1c2068c62b.apk: Failure 
>> [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE: Package org.mythtv.mythfrontend 
>> signatures do not match the previously installed version; ignoring!]
>>
> Each android apk file is signed with somebody's private key. I have 
> created my own private key with which I sign all of the apks on 
> bintray.com.
>
> When you build an apk, if you do not create a key, it is signed by a 
> development key that is created when you install the development kit. 
> If you try to install a new version of an apk that is signed with a 
> different signature the system will refuse to do it.
>
> Note the development key is valid for one year. The permanent one like 
> I created is valid for 40 years.
>
> So - long story short - you will have to uninstall and install again, 
> which will also lose your config.xml file. However if you have set up 
> a unique id in the config, you can use the same unique id again and 
> your settings from the database will still be found.
>
> Peter
>
>
Thanks,  so I got my "homemade" version of v30 built and installed. It 
was initialized to defaults.  I tried setting a unique identifier prior 
to this version, but I must have used a different name than I remembered.

So should the process be that after a install of mythfrontend.apk you 
should first thing change the identifier to the name you used prior? 
Then do you restart the mythfrontend app??


BTW, I wrote down the identifier this time :-)

Jim A