Android Studio gradle bintray upload failed: Could not sign version

Question

After running

./gradlew bintrayUpload

I am getting the following error.

:my-library:bintrayUpload FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':my-library:bintrayUpload'.

  Could not sign version '0.8.1': HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request [message:Private key is required, please supply it by using a JSON body or alternatively you can stored in your Bintray profile]

• Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

It had been working previously when I installed GPG authentication as described in this tutorial.

However, when I tried to update the version (as described here) it stopped working.

Procurable

Answer 1

I was able to solve this issue by deleting the GPG key in Bintray and then regenerating the keys.

Procurable

I just spent 2 hous debugging until I did this and the upload worked. Thanks! – Scrappy

Facing same issue. But now getting error as message:The private key requires a passphrase, please supply a passphrase. – Leblanc

"2 Hours later": Disabled gpg signing – Leblanc

Answer 2

This happens mostly after the local.properties file is regenerated.

Instead of generating a new key, if you still remember the password, in your local.propreties file just add this line:

bintray.gpg.password= yourpassowrd

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