In the old TestFlightApp, there was an SDK that allowed developers to log info on the device and then access those logs from the TestFlight website.
After the Apple takeover of TestFlight, I'm not seeing an option to do this through iTunes Connect.
Does anyone know of a way to do this using Apple's new version of TestFlight? Or does anyone have any recommendations for a simple approach to viewing device logs during beta testing?
If you can get your beta testers to send you log files manually, you have a few options. You used to be able to use the iPhone Configuration Utility to view device log files, but it no longer works as of iOS8. The only OS X tool to view device logs other than Xcode that I've been able to find is iOS Console from Lemon Jar Labs (http://lemonjar.com/iosconsole/). It's a very nice tool and I actually prefer it to the Xcode console log - I especially love the filtering ability. I've also seen reference to iTools (http://www.itools.cn/) that works under Windows being able to access device log files, but have no personal experience with it.
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I have an iPhone
I don't have a physical mac. I'm using the new AWS mac instances to use XCode / build the binaries (Completely kosher and allowed by Apple).
I can't connect the phone and the AWS instance since they're not physically in the same place.
If I can build an IPA of the app, I should be able to use Firebase distribution to distribute the app to my phone (I think). But when I try to build the app using flutter build ios I get errors like: 'There are no devices registered in your account on the developer website. Plug in and select a device to have Xcode register it'
What should I do? Can I virtually register my device somehow by putting its UUID somewhere? Can I sign up for a developer account and use TestFlight to distribute the app? Will that also require the device to be physically plugged in?
I can answer for the TestFlight part. You can distribute the app via TestFlight, and the device does not have to be plugged in. So that is very doable.
Using TestFlight is simple and pretty straight forward with many guides, official ones and also on youtube. There are several troubleshooting tips here on SO as well. The drawback as I see it is that it takes time before your pushed build is readily available on TestFlight. So it won't be a good way to iterate code changes fast.
So I got my MacBook pro yesterday in hopes of developing some local apps to build on my phone.
And after setting everything up, Visual studio on my mac and XCode, and I already had Visual Studio on my PC things started messing up.
I tried debugging my app on my phone from my PC, with the phone connected to my PC ofcourse, didnt work, so I read around on the internet for a good 4 hours and it said that I should create a blank project in XCode, and for the Signing in preferences I had to choose Team, so I did and it debugged the application on my iphone when my iphone was connected to my Mac,
However I DONT want to code on Mac computers, I want to use my PC.
But everytime I try to debug the application from my PC it keeps saying
Could not find any available provisioning profiles for iOS.
I am running a iPhone 7 with the version 10.1.1 because I dont want to update due to various reasons.
I tried changing the Deployment target to something really low but that didnt fix it.
Why is this happening?
Visual representation of what the error looks like
Not sure if this picture helps, this is the project properties > iOS Bundle Signing
And my device log is empty aswell.. Why?
ANother error message saying it doesnt support
EDIT
I plugged it into the mac and now its visible in the Device log and I can see stuff happening in the device log but I still cant boot the project on my iPhone
Apple doesn't allow developing for iphone on a non IOS device. This simply means that you can't build apps on a Linux or Windows computer/laptop the normal way. You are stuck on building your project on an IOS device.
There are 2 options to fully develop on a Windows laptop though.
One way of doing so is by using your mac as a gateway to send your app from Windows to IOS to your phone. More info about this can be found here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/xamarin/ios/get-started/installation/windows/
The second option is a newer one called Xamarin Live Player. You don't need to use a mac at all for developing, but you still need a mac if you want to publish the app. This option also works differently from normal development as you need to download an extra program on your phone.
https://www.xamarin.com/live
You could try to do manual provisioning. Create a development provisioning profile at the Apple Developer site, and have XCode download it for you. Then it should show on your PC for you to select.
See the Xamarin documentation on manual provisioning for some more details:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/get-started/installation/device-provisioning/manual-provisioning?tabs=vsmac#creating-a-development-provisioning-profile
I have an iPhone application that is to be distributed in-house through Enterprise account.
The Application is available trough a link that works fine for some users and for the others it fails with "Cannot be download at this time" knowing that both users have the same iPhone model, iOS version and settings.
Is there a way for me to get more details about the root cause of not being able to download. tried the device log but it is so overwhelming and keep updating so it is difficult to capture the logs related to the download failure.
Any suggestions.
Thanks,
We have an app in Xcode from our old developers. We are in the registration process for an apple developer account, but on internet I read it can take a couple of weeks before it gets approved.
Is there a way I can simulate the app (like with TestFlight) without sending the actual code to potential new developers?
You can't distribute the app unless you have it signed/provisioned with needed UDIDs (which requires developer program). You can deploy it on your(s) device(s) using XCode though.
You should still be able to run the iOS simulator, which is generally the default behaviour for the build-and-run button - you can download more simulator environments in Xcode -> Preferences -> Components if you're missing one that you need.
Update: If you want third parties to run the app, there's no practical option apart from TestFlight. This is because iOS uses code signing to prevent trojan or pirated apps being installed on their devices. In that case you can consider other options which will achieve whatever your goals are, for example making a video of the app in use or setting up VNC access to a machine with the simulator (and code) on it.
I'd like to generate Bluetooth diagnostics logs on iPhone. I've installed Bluetooth Development Profile and I can click on "Save logs". But where can I find them and how can I transfer them to PC?
Preferably without iTunes, as on Windows I have very bad experience with this SW. I'm new to Apple ecosystem.
Thank you.
Your answer can be found in the Apple documentation here.
The steps are as follows.
Download and install the profile on your device (this can be done through Safari on the device).
Restart your device.
Reproduce any bluetooth commands you would like to diagnose.
Go to Settings > Bluetooth and select Diagnostic Mode
Add short description of the problem and tap Save
Sync device via iTunes (there doesn't seem to be a way to pull them manually without a rooted device).
Windows 7, 8, and Vista logs can be found at:
C:\Users\[Your_User_Name]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice\[Your_Device_Name]\BluetoothDiagnostics\
OSX logs can be found at:
/Users/[Your_User_name]/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/[Your_Device_Name]/BluetoothDiagnostics/
The logs will be saved into timestamped folders like this Logs-2015.12.8-00.50.55/.