System keyring integration for apk signing

[naufraghi]

I have seen that there is some integration only with the Os X keyring, perhaps using a library can help a lot. Using Scala + sbt to write seamlessly integrated OSX Apps has a section explaining the use of the Netbeans keyring module (cited from the site):

It consists of two parts: A platform-independent API and implementations of this API for all major operating systems. Currently there are implementations for OSX, Windows, KDE, Gnome, SPI and a fallback using a Java keystore. We start by adding all of that to our build.sbt:

libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  "org.netbeans.api" % "org-netbeans-modules-keyring" % "RELEASE721",
  "org.netbeans.modules" % "org-netbeans-modules-keyring-impl" % "RELEASE721"
)

resolvers += "netbeans" at "http://bits.netbeans.org/maven2/"

Usage is straightforward, once you know that the keyring only stores char arrays:

private val keyName = "doctivity"

def readToken =
   Keyring.read(keyName) match {
      case null  => None
      case chars => Some(chars.mkString)
   }

 def storeToken(token: String) {
   Keyring.save(keyName, token.toCharArray, "access token for doctivity")
 }

 def deleteToken {
   Keyring.delete(keyName)
 }

[pfn]

Interesting request. However this keyring implementation is unsuitable for use on windows.

[naufraghi]

In fact on windows there is the Windows Credential Vault, it is supported in https://bitbucket.org/kang/python-keyring-lib and I'm using the "spawn-some-service" solution already in gradle: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22597752/317518

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Perry [email protected] wrote:

Interesting request. However this keyring implementation is unsuitable for use on windows.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/jberkel/android-plugin/issues/201#issuecomment-49216217 .

Matteo Bertini http://www.slug.it/naufraghi

[pfn]

I'm not saying keychain support in general won't work on windows. I'm pointing out that the keyring library you pointed out is unsuitable for windows.

[naufraghi]

OK, sorry, I often forget that windows is used as a non-only-gaming-but-also-development platform too :)