As all experienced Blackberry developers will know, to use the restricted BB APIs, you will have to code sign your application. The registration process used to be 20 bucks. Now it is free though. Actually what is the point of code signing, that too when it is free? Maybe there is a real valid reason… Anyways, that is another story, for another day…

Coming back to topic; I went to the now familiar BB developer site to get the code signing keys one more time. This time I was greeted with a new combo box that asked me if i wanted the keys for the Tablet OS or the Smartphone OS or both. I gladly selected both although I didn’t know if the keys were going to be the same or different. I don’t do Tab development as of now. So, I am not familiar with the Dev environment for that.

After a few hours (although they generally say 2 or 3 days), I received 3 emails with the code signing keys. All the 3 emails talked about Tablet OS and not about the Smartphone at all. I didn’t know if I should install the received keys assuming that they are the same for both the OS or wait and see if I get the Smartphone keys separately. I crossed my fingers and decided to wait for a few more hours. Fortunately, I received another set of 3 emails with keys for the Smartphone as well. I installed it and all is well again.

It would have been nice if the BB developer site clearly mentioned that I will be receiving two sets of keys. It may look obvious now and I may even sound silly, but it would have definitely saved me a few hours of anxiety at that time.