Connection Error Between Android Studio and Backendless

I am completing a training in Android Studio and I am trying to run solution code identical to that of people who are working next to me. When I run the code no data is passed to Backendless even though the app runs. I do however, get the following error in Android Logcat.

Backendless registration error!: Hostname api.backendless.com not verified: certificate: sha1/bE44jNPV4Olg9eg7jMQI18Xm8Oc=

Does anyone have an idea how this error is originating?

Hi Austin

Did you go through all the steps of client-side setup? Can you please show how your app initialization code looks like?

Anton