[mythtv-users] installing mythfrontend apk on Shield TV

[James Abernathy]

On 2/5/19 10:58 AM, James Abernathy 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??


It seems that the saved settings in Shield TV mythfrontend do get 
restored after changing the identifier to the name previously used, but 
not all values are restored.  Theme is not restored, but the ones about 
video playback profile are restored.

Jim A