Android Question Compiling

In which folder do you save your project ?
Do you use lots of libraries and/or resource files ?

The project is located in a set of sub folders off my desktop. I'm compiling Pack Droid which uses libGDX. "Signing package file (private key)" takes over 100 seconds.

try to create a new key. where do you save your keystore file?
what b4a version are you using?

it is recommended to install b4a in a different folder then Program Files. try to install it to c:\ and put also the keystore file to that folder and load it from there.

Try to temporary disable the antivirus and see whether it helps.

The signing package step should be very quick (less than 0.5 second).

This problem is is with Java, not B4A. My computer has been running the same installation of windows for over 6 years. After installation of different versions of Java over the years, the settings just simply got messed up.

I've been trying a lot of stuff over the last 2 days (installing, reinstalling, un-installing java of different versions and so on) including the suggestions here (thank you btw).

I don't know if this was the right solution to my problem but I just don't want to waste any more time on this. I finally did a fresh complete reinstall of Windows 7 and all of its software and drivers.

Now it compiles much faster, including the signing of the package which is now within 2 seconds. It also cleared out other compile errors I was manually resolving by terminating Java within task manager.