Azure DevOps Two Provisioning Profiles for iOS App - ios

Question

I am very lost and haven't been able to find a huge amount of material on this matter.
I am creating a CI/CD pipeline for an iOS app that has two provisioning profiles, one for the main app and an additional one for widgets. I am installing both provisioning profiles, one after another like this:
- task: InstallAppleProvisioningProfile#1
inputs:
provisioningProfileLocation: 'secureFiles'
provProfileSecureFile: '$(provisioningProfile)'
removeProfile: true
displayName: "Install Main Provisioning Profile"
- task: InstallAppleProvisioningProfile#1
inputs:
provisioningProfileLocation: 'secureFiles'
provProfileSecureFile: '$(provisioningProfileWidgets)'
removeProfile: true
displayName: "Install Widget Provisioning Profile"
But when I run the Xcode task, I am failing with the error:
error: No signing certificate "iOS Development" found: No "iOS Development" signing certificate matching team ID "[team id]" with a private key was found.
I am assigning provisioning profiles through a plist which looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>provisioningProfiles</key>
<dict>
<key>[main app]</key>
<string>[uuid]/string>
<key>[widgets]</key>
<string>[uuid]</string>
</dict>
<key>signingCertificate</key>
<string>iOS Distribution</string>
<key>signingStyle</key>
<string>manual</string>
<key>method</key>
<string>app-store</string>
<key>teamID</key>
<string>[team id]</string>
</dict>
</plist>
My Xcode task looks like this:
- task: Xcode#5
inputs:
actions: '-allowProvisioningUpdates clean build'
scheme: '$(scheme)'
sdk: '$(sdk)'
configuration: '$(configuration)'
xcWorkspacePath: '$(workspace)'
xcodeVersion: 'default'
packageApp: true
signingOption: 'manual'
exportOptions: 'plist'
exportOptionsPlist: '$(devPlist)'
displayName: "Build and Sign"
If I change signingOption to 'auto' I get the error above and other's such as:
No profiles for '*****' were found: Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Development provisioning profiles matching '******'.
error: There are no accounts registered with Xcode. Add your developer account to Xcode
I've been on this for a couple of days, but every tutorial just seems to be using a single provisioning profile, and I'm really stumped on what to do next, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is the tutorial I have been trying to follow as much as possible, https://damienaicheh.github.io/ios/azure/devops/2019/12/05/build-sign-your-ios-application-using-azure-devops-en.html, and this is where I got the plist idea from, Azure Devops Pipelines - Xcode project with multiple provisioning profiles fails archive and sign.
Thanks 😊

Answer 1

I was searching through the internet for couple of days without any results.
After a week of investigation I figured out that problem in my case was related to the configurations in my project:
I was needed to set Signing as Apple Distribution for Release configuration in Build Settings both for app and extension
Example: Manual signing
Second think is related to pipelines configuration.
I did exactly the same as this guy How to create plist file with profiles recommended, but for me "Signing style" worked only with "Project Defaults":how to setup Xcode task
Note: It is very important to correctly configure your export option plist file.
I hope it will help and make someone's life easier.