I have my own developer certificate and now I want to compile/build an app for a customer with his own (single user) account. how could I build an ios app with xcode for other certificates?
thx!
You need to make a provisioning profile from his dev account.. using keychain in your system..
Then when archiving ..select the customer distribution profile for the app.
That's it
I wouldn't know a way on how to do it the programmatically way. But you can do it really easy: If you are making the app for a customer, I assume he pays you for the rights to the app including source code. So just develop it. And when it is finished you send him the source code and he compiles it on his own and publishes it.
Or he sends you his certificate (if this is possible).
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I have been an android developer and was thinking the life is not easy but then I found the iOS developer account and its relativity with project creation and other certifications.
I have developed the app, then in that App, I need to add FCM notifications. For this, I have installed FCM pod. And made necessary changes in the project.
Now its turn for me to connect my project with FCM ios ( and ios APNS with FCM server)
So good so far. Now I want to create a different team for this project. But When I create a distribution certificate it always creates a file with the name of the team I was using before i.e ABCD. I tried to create another profile but it just creates ABCD named file.
Can anyone tell what could be the problem?
2nd what are the steps required to create a production certificate for FCM to launch the app in the store?
Please discuss the first point in detail why it is happening? Why I can't change the name of the certificate.
Note: Whenever I try to create a development certificate it take another name
Please let me know what is going on..........
Xcode generates certificate fully automatic these days. You should let it automatically build them for you till you experienced more with apple signing process.
you can change any identifiers you want before sending any kind of build to appStore, (for example for test flight)
If you didn't upload to appstore yet, you can just login with your other account in Xcode and choose it from the team dropdown in signing section of general tap in Xcode. Then Xcode tries to sign the app with new credentials.
For FCM, follow the original documentation of FCM.
And at the end, Welcome to iOS world ;)
Here's the story:
I created a free developer account to build an app for a client.
I used this info for the Identity and Signing:
It came time to upload the app to TestFlight and to use the client's developer account.
I created the account in xcode using their apple id and updated the signing like so:
But now I got this error.
It was clear, so I updated the Bundle Identifier to this:
But again, now I am getting a different error, and I don't know what to do.
I do not have an iOS device to register, nor do I care to get one, since I'm not doing the testing - they are.
I did create an app in the App Store Connect, and it is set up like so:
As you can see I created it to match the Bundle ID from before and still no luck.
Any help is greatly appreciated. I just want to be able to get my Xcode project onto TestFlight using someone else's developer account (with their consent of course).
It needs to have at least one iOS device registered in order to create the development profile. Ask your client for the UDID of one of their devices and add that manually to the developer portal. If they don't have one handy, feel free to use: f978c5f2e861f71b340125a4fa8d130a6254a0b3 which will work.
Alternatively, switch to manual signing and do everything manually. That's my preferred method, but some say Xcode is finally good at managing profiles etc for you.
The only way to do this without a device is to turn off "Automatically manage signing" and manage everything at the Member Center.
You will need the distribution identity / certificate first. If the team already has one, you will need them to export it to you; otherwise you cannot upload.
Then register the app.
Then make a development certificate, and a distribution certificate for the app store, and download and install them.
Now you can archive and then export to the app store.
i creating a app with Codenameone. i want to build it in ios and test it on ios before buying a apple developering account. how is it possible ?
can i use some other certificate for this kind of building just for testing it?
Codename One will build your app with our certificate if you don't fill in the details. It isn't guaranteed to work and it will only install on a jailbroken device.
This is a restriction imposed by Apple which doesn't allow you to run an application on your own device without a certificate.
You can use some other certificates. Tell some of your friend to provide you the certificate and private key exported from their keychain. You also need a provisional profile from same friend with wild card. It will allow you to not to register you bundle ID on the portal. Tell the friend to add your iOS device UDID into the provisional profile as well. Now you should able to do it.
If you really want to go ahead with iOS, better to buy.
I am very new to iOS development and am in a bit of a bind. Another company has made an app for us and we are to deploy it. I have an enterprise development account and have successfully deployed one of my own apps to my own secured app store.
I have received a .ipa and a .plist file from company B and tried to put it up on my app store as I did with my app using the special href tag.
a href="itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=http://www.myurl.com/app/company_b.plist">link</a>
The app downloads about 90% then fails. I have ensured that it is a valid plist file pointing to the .ipa.
Company-B had to add my iOS device to their device list at https://developer.apple.com/account/ios/device/deviceList.action. After they did this the app would download correctly.
I need to deploy this app to a number of people and Company B cannot add all the devices to their device list.
What can I do to deploy this app properly?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
Use a script like https://gist.github.com/RichardBronosky/2878446 to re-sign the ipa with your enterprise certificate. This way you don't need to give the 3rd party developer your signing identity.
You should never give out the private key for your enterprise certificate or give developer.apple.com access to anyone outside of your company.
The company has not properly signed the application. Get them to rebundle the ipa with the proper enterprise certificate
Can I send to my customer a beta version of my iOS app that he can run in the Simulator ?
Can I install Simulator only (without Xcode) on a Mac ?
I actually need an efficient methodology to send him the beta versions of the app, without having to meet him at each update.
Also, (3.) is there a way to install a beta version of the app, I developed in my xCode on its iOS device without app store ?
Thanks
No, I do not believe you can.
No, I don't think so. If you could, however, you'd also have to put all your source code on that machine and build your app there, just to run it in the simulator.
Yes, it's called an Ad Hoc build. You create a special provisioning profile through the provisioning portal on Apple's Developer portal. You then sign the build with that provisioning profile (actually, "Build and Archive"). Then you can, through the Xcode Organizer, share that build via e-mail with your customer. The Organizer creates an .ipa file and includes it along with the provisioning profile into an e-mail message which you can then compose and send.
Edit: The Ad Hoc provisioning profile will, of course, need to include the UDID's of your customer's device(s) on which they would like to test. That is the missing piece here that ties it all together: UDIDs, Ad Hoc profile, signed app with that profile, e-mail it to the customer and they can install both files (ipa and profile) via iTunes.
Lots of documentation on this, right in the Developer portal.
TestFlightApp.com is a great way to easily manage and distribute beta tests and ad-hoc builds. It's nothing you couldn't do yourself, manually, but it really helps make it easy, and is free.