I realised that I am able to sign the application manually using apksigner but I don't get why it doesn't work with Qt Creator. Unfortunately, without being able to sign the app within Qt Creator I cannot publish it on the store as the "Add debug server" option is always enabled if the "Sign package" option is disabled. See below.
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