iOS Enterprise App Distribution – Provisioning Profile expired - ios

Question

How I can check in App when expired Provisioning Profile and notify user about date?
Example
I have found here. But this file is not included in a bundle of the project. Maybe there are some options? Thanks

Answer 1

Despite this being a MAC OS X prov checker, it applies all the same to iOS too:
https://github.com/LigeiaRowena/ProvisioningInfo
Personally, that information shouldn't bother your users. You should have a clear record of when they expire, and notify the users via push notifications and/or some form of REST api for expiration dates.
Ideally, the best way to handle this is to periodically (at least once a year) push out an update with nothing more than a new embedded mprov.
Do you specifically need your users to notify you as to when your provisioning profiles are expiring?
But in terms of reading the plist file:
[NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:#"path/to/file.plist"]
This also seems to be a previously answered question at:
Get the EXPIRATION date of a Provisioning Profile at Run-time?
but to reiterate the code:
- (NSString*) getExpiry{
NSString *profilePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"embedded" ofType:#"mobileprovision"];
// Check provisioning profile existence
if (profilePath)
{
// Get hex representation
NSData *profileData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:profilePath];
NSString *profileString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", profileData];
// Remove brackets at beginning and end
profileString = [profileString stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange(0, 1) withString:#""];
profileString = [profileString stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange(profileString.length - 1, 1) withString:#""];
// Remove spaces
profileString = [profileString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" " withString:#""];
// Convert hex values to readable characters
NSMutableString *profileText = [NSMutableString new];
for (int i = 0; i < profileString.length; i += 2)
{
NSString *hexChar = [profileString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(i, 2)];
int value = 0;
sscanf([hexChar cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding], "%x", &value);
[profileText appendFormat:#"%c", (char)value];
}
// Remove whitespaces and new lines characters
NSArray *profileWords = [profileText componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
//There must be a better word to search through this as a structure! Need 'date' sibling to <key>ExpirationDate</key>, or use regex
BOOL sibling = false;
for (NSString* word in profileWords){
if ([word isEqualToString:#"<key>ExpirationDate</key>"]){
NSLog(#"Got to the key, now need the date!");
sibling = true;
}
if (sibling && ([word rangeOfString:#"<date>"].location != NSNotFound)) {
NSLog(#"Found it, you win!");
NSLog(#"Expires: %#",word);
return word;
}
}
}
return #"";
}