[mythtv-users] installing mythfrontend apk on Shield TV

[Jon Boehm]

Do old identifiers stick around?  I see android-########### in mythweb
settings tab.  I assume even if I delete the current android app and
install a new one from a thumb drive, that I can go in and set the new
app's identifier to the old app's identifier that was randomly assigned the
first time.  Do I have that right?

Jon

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 7:59 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
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