I have to publish an iOS App with an Apple Developer Account which is not mine. I got the Developer Invitation to that Account and joined the team. I have to use an existing Distribution Certificate to sign the App but something went wrong because the valid signing identity for this certificate was not not found.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Here is what I did:
Joined the new Developer Account
Created a new Developer Certificate (created a certificate with the certificate assistant in my keychain and uploaded to the account in order to get my valid development certificate).
Certificate got approved from the Admin of the account (downloaded and installed on my mac)
Next I downloaded an existing Developer Proivisioning Certificate (downloaded and installed in my mac)
XCode says that no valid signing identity for that Development Proivisioning Profile was found. But am I right that this valid signing identity was downloaded in Step 3? Or what do I have to do to get it working? I thought I only need that Development Certificate in order to get all existing Development Provisioning Certificates to work. Or do I need the private key (.p12) exported from the Admin's machine?
If you need some additional information just let me know.
Cheers.
After your admin accepts your certificate request ask him to add that certificate to the provisioning profile you working on. Then download the provisioning profile and drag and drop to the xcode
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I have hired a freelancer to build an app for me. I have an individual dev account to which I have added him as a technical user. He has requested either that I send him distribution and development certs plus a provisioning profile OR to make him an admin role in iTunes Connect.
Should I create certificates with my name/email and send them to him? Or with his name/email? Or should I just make him an admin? What is the best/safest course of action? This is just for testing purposes and I will be receiving the source code upon project completion.
Totally new to iOS dev and have been scrounging around the web for a definitive answer. Sorry if this is rudimentary!
Thanks!
You don't need to add him as a Admin at all. If he has a free developer account you can sent him a request to add to your developer account team and can create a development and distribution profile from which developer can download. For certificate request developer need to send the request from him Mac and can download it from developer.apple.com.
For other option i am not sure if it will work because from latest XCode environment developer account needs to be added in Xcode but give it a try.
Other option if you don't at all want to give access to your developer account will be. Create and download the developer and distribution profile and share it with Freelancer.
For Certificate you would be requiring a Mac. Below is a process of creating a certificate:
http://www.aquafadas.com/en/documentation/sample-page/developer-apple-com-2/generating-your-development-certificate/
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/MaintainingCertificates/MaintainingCertificates.html
Now goto your KeyChain access and can see your certificate there:
Right Click your certificate and export "iPhone Developer..." or "iPhone Distribution.." . Save it to your desktop. It will be a .p12 file and will ask for password while saving.
Share this .p12 file with the freelancer along with password. Share both Developer and Distribution certificate.
So now your freelancer has both Developer and Distribution certificate and provisional profile.
Since he is not the one that will be submitting the app to AppStore, then he should not be an admin. So the admin account is with your credentials.
Usually, if he is an iOS freelancer, most likely he already has an Apple account. So after he creates a certificate signing request, you should generate a development certificate for him, in order to test on real devices - that is, you must add his user to your created team.
However, the certificates-accounts process is not so easy, so I'd recommend you to also read: http://escoz.com/blog/demystifying-ios-certificates-and-provisioning-files/ .
I have a iOS app use the account A.
My client gave me an enterprise account B for In-House distribution.
I'm not allowed to revoke their existing certificates and they do not provide .p12 and .developerprofile.
I called the apple center and they told me NO .P12 key can also publish procedures but did not told me how to do.
My E-mail have joined the team,
I create a new app id and a provisioning profiles but the provisioning profiles is error in my Xcode.
error message:The private key for "XXX" is not installed on this Mac.
My question:
I just want to release .ipa for in-house type how to do？
thx!
You will need to p12 (private key) form the client or revoke the current profile. There is not other option. Do not revoke any provisioning profiles for current apps since they may used.
Also explain to the client what you are doing and the consequences that it may have, if they are not able to provide you with the necessary certificates.
You generate a Certificate Sign Request (CSR) from your Keychain, login to your developer account and choose your client's team.
You then create an enterprise certificate which will have to be approved by your client's team manager. Once that is done you will be able to download it and install it on your keychain.
After that generate a provisioning profile for the app you want to distribute, download and install it on Xcode.
Build your app with this certificate and save the IPA for enterprise distribution.
Hey guys I have to publish an App with a foreign Apple Account. I got the invitation and now I can download the Distribution Provisionig Profile. However I also need the valid signing identity - that means that I also have to create a Distribution Certificate but this option is disabled or I only can create a Development Certificate (like shown in the screenshot below).
Am I right that this Distribution Certificate has to be created by the Account Owner? What exactly does he have to do in order to get the available Distribution Provisioning Profile to work on my machine?
I Would be glad for some hints!
The account owner has to export both the distribution certificate and the private key and share them with you. You install them on your computer and everything should work.
I have an app developed and working with our company's profile and distribution cert. I just recieved the .p12 from the company that we are going to be distributing to, and am trying to rebuild the app with their certificate. However, when I select 'Archive' I receive
"No unexpired provisioning profiles found that contain any of the keychains signing certificates"
I believe I'm missing something here, but google and I can't figure it out. Do I need a new profile with that certificate in it? If so how do I go about uploading the .p12?
Thankyou very much.
With the p12 you are enabling your computer to make releases for the outside company but what you need right now is the provisioning profile associated with that app (it will be specific if you have in app purchases or push notification otherwise it will be the default developer profile) and that .p12
Check out your keychain, distribution certificate has key. If not then install right certificate.
I'm member of development team, and the team admin sends me a distribution certificate to sign applicattion and send to him,i install it into Keychain but XCode cannot recognize the certificate, in Organizer there is info that Valid signing identity not found, what I'm doing wrong ?
You need the private key from the team admin. Whoever generated the certificate will have the private key in their keychain. They need to export that and send it to you along with the certificate.