I'm still struggeling with Apple App-Store Certification for iOS Apps.
Now I have a client who has his own developer account, but I'm developing for him and doing all the stuff. I have a separate developer Account on my own. The Client authorized my account on Itunes Connect, as App Manager.
He created a Distribution Certificate, an App Id and a Provisioning Profile for the App ID and sent the certificate and the Profile to me. I included it in the keychain and can now select those in XCode.
But XCODE says: the provisioning Profile "doesn't include any certificate for which the private key is installed in keychain."
What am I missing? Do I need the private key of the clients? Or is there an other way to do this?
Any Help would be appreciated
You have two options:
1) Ask your client to export developer certificate from keychain(.p12) and share it with you.
2) You have to create a new developer certificates(By removing old one from keychain) by upload a new CSR certificate so the private key will be installed in your system.
if issue is with both(Developer and Distribution)certificate you need both to be exported from your client machine.
You need both certificate and private key (.p12). Ask your client to export the private key and shared it with you. Once you got the private key, install it in your system and you are good to go. Follow this tutorial to export the private key.
https://www.ironpaper.com/webintel/articles/how-to-share-an-ios-distribution-certificate/
Make sure your client export the private key of distribution certificate.
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I have received a .p12 certificate from my Client. I have installed it to my KeyChain. I need to create a distribution provisioning using this and sign my app ipa with it.
How can I create the distribution profile using this information? Any help is appreciated
You cannot create a distribution profile from a certificate and private key. The provisioning profiles are created on Apple's developer site and must reference one or more certificate to be used with the profile.
You will need to either need to have the account owner create / download the profile from the developer site and send it to you, or grant you access as an admin on their team. Also, before you request the iOS distribution profile from your client, make sure you also check that the .p12 file that was sent contains the certificate and the private key for the cert. Without the private key, you won't be able to sign, even if you get the profile.
The 4 key pieces of code signing for iOS are the certificate, the private key for the certificate, the provisioning profile, and the entitlements. If you are missing any of these, or if they are out of sync, you will run into problems. The private key is exactly what it says - private. Apple does not have, nor does it want to store the private key. That is kept by the app owner. Apple will generate and allow you to download your certificate based off that private key (you share with them a cert signing request to generate the cert off of your key). Similarly, you can generate / download existing provisioning profiles from Apple's dev site. Finally, the entitlements in your app must match the entitlements granted on your profile. Those are assigned to your app, and the application's project settings requests access to services - this much match what is requested as part of the app ID / profile on Apple's dev site. So those are the key components; from your question, hopefully you can get your client to send you the provisioning profile. Also, you could potentially run into problems with out of sync entitements, if you need to do anything with additional services, like iCloud, if the client hasn't configured those properly for you.
I used XCode to download certificates after regenerating them. I noticed the distribution certificate didn't have a private key in the key chain. I saw that XCode now has a "reset" button so I used that. The new certificate has a private key but with a different name. It still worked though and allowed me to export and install an adhoc app. Also we have two dev teams, could this be the other teams private key?
When the certificate is first requested, the private key is generated and saved in the keychain on the Mac used to generate the request. Only this Mac will be able to actually sign the apps. As in your case, if you have more than one developer authorised to sign apps for distribution using this certificate, you'll need to export the private key from the original requesting machine, and import it into the keychain of other developers.
If you use the 'reset' button, it will revoke the existing certificate and issue a new certificate signing request from your Mac. This will also invalidate all provisioning profiles in the developer account that are tied to the previous certificate. Existing apps already in the iOS app store will be OK, but you will need to regenerate the provisioning profile with the new certificate for any new app signing.
I have published iOS app on Apple Store.
It was compiled on developer's MAC computer.
Now I need to figure out how to recompile on different MAC computer to publish on Apple store.
Can I use existing certificate
or
do I have to create new certificate?
I just want to publish newer version of my application.
What do I need from developer?
By the way, I have full access to Apple Developer's account.
Thanks,
Ashok
You would require private key, certificate, and provisioning profile along with access to apple developer account for publishing your app.
Since you already have access to the developer account, so provisioning profile and certificate is no issue.
So in fact you just have to private key from the developer.
FYI: private key and digital certificate[contains public key] are together known as signing identity.
In order to upload the app on app store you will need
Production Certificate with private key installed on your MAC.
Distribution Provisioning Profile (enabled for App Store ).
Make sure your provisioning profile use the same "App Id" that was used during the last version uploading process.
You can check the "app Id" or "bundle Id" on the app detail page of your iTunes account . ( You must have all these configured in your existing account)
Now, if you don't get the private key from your last developer. You can simply log in to iTunes account and can revoke the Production certificate.
You can find several tutorials on web for "Revoking Certificate"
After revoking you can download and install the certificate on your MAC and can also distribute it to other developers in your team. Now, download or create the distribution profile enabled for App Store and install it on your MAC (If it got expired then renew it)
Also, Please refer some tutorial for app uploading process. You will get a better idea on all this.
I have an app, there is a company that wants to try my app. They have own enterprise account.
They send me a distribution certificate and a provision. I tried to archive my app with their certificate and provision but I took an error as below
Do I need to be a member of their team? Also they send to me bundle ID , they didn't sent team informations,I just select "none" .
Thank you.
To my understanding they have sent you the certificate but not the matching private key for that certificate (.p12 file). If they are willing to send you the private key as well then you should be able to sign the app (more about this issue here).
Another way to do this is by sending them an .xarchive file and asking them to import it into Xcode. Once it is visible in the Organizer they can distribute it with their own certificate (more details in this answer).
Good luck!
This is getting frustrating. I have two identities, one old, one new, and the latter should be used to deploy iOS apps to the App Store.
I've created the new user, granted him admin access, then I created the app name and provisioning profiles. However, in the Organizer I see that the Dev provision works flawlessly, while the Deploy profile shows me the dreaded error:
Valid signing identity not found.
How can it be?
Well, I see that in the Certificates section in the iOS Provisioning Portal, there is only one distribution certificate, the one belonging to my company.
Is there a way to enable the new user to create apps without accessing the uberadmin's Xcode?
Thanks & Cheers!
You need the key that was used to create the Distribution Certificate for your company.
Remember when you created your developer certificate? Then you went to keychain -> certificate assistant -> Request a certificate from ...
When you did this, your Mac paired your certificate request to a key in your keychain. Once your developer certificate was processed and you downloaded it to your computer, it could be accessed by your computer through that key.
But if you did not create the Distribution Certificate that your company has, you don't have the key on your computer.
Take a look at your certificates in keychain:
Go to 'Certificates' and expand your developer certificate - it will have a little key with your name.
Now try to expand your distribution certificate - it will not have a key, right?
If this is the case, you have two options:
Ask the person who created the Distribution Certificate to export it from his keychain. This will create a file that includes both certificate and key.
Delete the current Distribution Certificate, and create a new Certificate Signing Request from your computer, which will connect it to a key that you have.
First method require access to "Uberadmins" computer. The second require admin access to your teams Apple account. There is usually no downside in using method 2, because creating a new certificate is necessary from time to time anyway. It will not affect already published apps, just coming releases and updates need to use a the latest certificate.
Once all this is done, you need to create a distribution provisioning profile for App Store and connect to the Distribution Certificate that you are going to use. (if you went with option 1, you might already have done this).
Download the profile to your computer, install it, and then in your app, select to build with this profile for distribution builds.
According to Apple's documentation:
A team’s distribution certificate allows a developer to build an app for distribution. If your team wants to use another Mac to create a distribution build, you need to transfer a copy of the distribution certificate as described in, “Safeguarding and Transferring Your Signing and Provisioning Assets” in Tools Workflow Guide for iOS. (from Managing a Distribution Certificate)
So, in order to have multiple users able to create & submit App Store builds, you must share a private key between them.
Create a new private key for the team, and then send that private key to everyone who needs it. Follow the instructions under Generating a Certificate Signing Request with Keychain Access.
See also: Any concern to share private key for distribution certificate among different group under a team account in itune provisioning portal