Signing Phonegap apps for Google Play

• Run phonegap build android from the folder containing www folder
• cd to this path platforms/android/
• Make sure ant.properties in this folder contains these keys and the right values

key.store=

key.alias=

key.store.password=

key.alias.password=

• increment the versionCode in AndroidManifest.xml in this folder
• cd to ant-build folder from this folder
• run ./build --release in this folder.

Now you have a bunch of .apk files in this folder. The one with the name <Project_Name>-release.apk is what you can upload to Google play.

References:

1. Stack Overflow answer about how to build a release from a phonegap app
2. Stack Overflow answer about how to specify your developer signature in a properties file
3. About versionCode param in PhoneGap community forums