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Get EC Public Key from EC Private Key

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Demonstrates how to get an EC public key from an EC private key.

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Android™
// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    // We have an ECC private key...
    // The contents of the private key PEM file look like this:

    // 	-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
    // 	MIGHAgEAMBMGByqGSM49AgEGCCqGSM49AwEHBG0wawIBAQQg3J8q/24D1sEKGdP9
    // 	72MGYElLGpw/a56Y3t6pfON3uhShRANCAATlSmoizyhAwoYZAOuFBATl07/1RR54
    // 	a1Dzfm16grxJe666AGKR+bSs24hk7TEpaeCTvT8YOOM3l+xKFg7zq6Q9
    // 	-----END PRIVATE KEY-----

    CkPrivateKey privKey = new CkPrivateKey();
    success = privKey.LoadPemFile("qa_data/ecc/secp256r1-key-pkcs8.pem");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, privKey.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Get the public key.
    CkPublicKey pubKey = new CkPublicKey();
    privKey.ToPublicKey(pubKey);

    // Save the public key to a PEM file.
    success = pubKey.SavePemFile(false,"qa_data/ecc/secp256r1-pubkey.pem");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, pubKey.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // The contents of the ECC public key PEM file look like this:

    // 	-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
    // 	MIIBSzCCAQMGByqGSM49AgEwgfcCAQEwLAYHKoZIzj0BAQIhAP////8AAAABAAAA
    // 	AAAAAAAAAAAA////////////////MFsEIP////8AAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA////
    // 	///////////8BCBaxjXYqjqT57PrvVV2mIa8ZR0GsMxTsPY7zjw+J9JgSwMVAMSd
    // 	NgiG5wSTamZ44ROdJreBn36QBEEEaxfR8uEsQkf4vOblY6RA8ncDfYEt6zOg9KE5
    // 	RdiYwpZP40Li/hp/m47n60p8D54WK84zV2sxXs7LtkBoN79R9QIhAP////8AAAAA
    // 	//////////+85vqtpxeehPO5ysL8YyVRAgEBA0IABOVKaiLPKEDChhkA64UEBOXT
    // 	v/VFHnhrUPN+bXqCvEl7rroAYpH5tKzbiGTtMSlp4JO9Pxg44zeX7EoWDvOrpD0=
    // 	-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

    Log.i(TAG, "Success.");

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}