I am creating a ipa file in xcode 3.2.6 but its not creating when i build and archive the app it doent not ask for saving the file and stops the processing how to fix this and make ipa working.
if id doesn't generate any error, then you may have more than one project files in your project. i.e. your project is combined. or you may have not selected any executeable for your project.
Try this:
1) Build a app. And you will get a .app
2) Open iTunes
3) Drag and drop a .app to the iTunes at left panel on top. For truely drop, you must see a Green "+" about cursor when you are draged a .app on panel.
4) iTunes will convert your .app to .ipa file
5) Look at Users/{you}/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications folder and find your IPA app file
Hope this helps you
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I created an app on Xcode and synced it to iPhone and it works fine. Now, i want to sync the app to iTunes so that i can copy the ipa file and send it to someone else for testing.
But the app is not getting synced to iTunes.
Is there any way to get the ipa file?
My app uses sqlite database. Is that the reason for not getting the app synced?
Try this:
1) Build a app. And you will get a .app
2) Open iTunes
3) Drag and drop a .app to the iTunes at left panel on top. For truely drop, you must see a Green "+" about cursor when you are draged a .app on panel.
4) iTunes will convert your .app to .ipa file
5) Look at Users/{you}/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications folder and find your IPA app file
Hope this helps you
I think you're over thinking this one, instead of deploying to your phone then syncing back to iTunes, try archiving your app, then making an ad-hoc distribution. This will give you the IPA
Now, I'm not completely sure about this but Apple may have specifically put protocols in place to keep your from making your own ad-hocs your the way you described.
In xcode go to Product->Archive. After the Archive operation completes, go to the Organizer, select your archive, select Share and in the "Select the content and options for sharing:" pane set Contents to "iOS App Store Package (.ipa) and Identity to iPhone Distribution (which should match your ad hoc/app store provisioning profile for the project).
I need to share distribution build to my client. When I used Xcode 4.0 it was very easy to find it. But now I am not able to see where the build folder places in the application folder. Now I am using Xcode 4.3. And it is little confusing for me. Can you guys please tell me the steps to find it out.
Thank you,
Chandra.
Connect your device
and
select XCode-->product-->archive then ipa file is generated in organizer then select your file and click on share and save,your ipa file is saved.
You should check your build settings in the xCode preferences.
In Xcode 3, you build the binary with Ad Hoc code signing settings and navigate to ~ProjectPath/build/AdHoc.ProjectName.
In Xcode 4, you have to "Archive" your binary. Then, open the organizer and select your app from the Archives menu. Once you've done that, choose the build of the app that ou want to share and click the "Share" button. Xcode 4 will prompt you to choose a codesigning certificate. This must match the one in your scheme. Once that is done, Xcode will ask you where to put it. Choose a location and then you will have answered your own question: The build is wherever you left it.
I am creating a simple application in xcode
Now i need to create ipa for that file.
By google i found some info regarding this.
create a folder named Payload and copy the app file,Zip the fine and rename zip to .ipa.
But i have a doubt in the this path users/username/library/application support/iphone simulator/4.1/Applications
i found a folder named with random alphabets and numbers.
In that i found documents,library,tmp folders along with my application.app.
is i need to copy all the 3 folders into payload or just my application.app is enough.
And i did n't get my icon in over the .ipa.
How can i get it.
can any one pls help me.
Thank u in advance.
If you go to Build and Archive in Xcode, it will package your app into an .ipa for you.
When in Organizer, click on your app, then click on the Share... button, then choose Save to Disk...
Also, I wouldnt suggest manually creating your .ipa files.
Apart from using Build and Archive, you can also try dragging and dropping your .app file onto iTunes. Then when you do 'reveal in finder' for the app, you'd see the IPA.
I've got an iPhone app with icon file Icon.png.
This icon shows up properly when the app is on the phone itself, but it doesn't show up in the applications pane in iTunes.
What do I need to do to get it to show up properly?
The cleanest way to do this is described in the official Apple documentation, in a section called Publishing Applications for Testing. Below is the exact instructions given to you on that page:
The iTunes artwork your testers see should be your application’s icon. This artwork must be a 512 x 512 JPEG or PNG file named iTunesArtwork. Note that the file must not have an extension.
After generating the file of your application’s icon, follow these steps to add it to your application:
Open your project in Xcode.
In the Groups & Files list, select the Resources group.
Choose Project > Add to Project, navigate to your iTunesArtwork file, and click Add.
In the dialog that appears, select the ”Copy items” option and click Add.
Note that the PNG or JPEG file is just 'iTunesArtwork', with no suffix.
If you try to copy the file into the application bundle after you have built it, it will break the app signing, and you will get a verification error when trying to sync it to your device. Ensure that the artwork file is included in the "Copy Bundle Resources" folder, within your project's target in XCode (step 4, above).
Create a 512x512 png of your icon, name it "iTunesArtwork" (no extension, no quotes) and add it to your project under Resources. Then build.
More details here:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/ios_development_workflow/000-Introduction/introduction.html
In order to make it easier for those arriving at this post, here are the actual instructions (straight from the blog post linked from the accepted answer).
There has been some talk on twitter about how to create your own IPA file for your iPhone app, so I thought I would give the instructions that I have used to build an IPA before. Enjoy.
Create a folder on your desktop called “working”. Open that and create another folder inside of it called “Payload” (case-sensitive)
Move your iTunesArtwork file into the “working” folder and your .app into the Payload folder.
Open Terminal and run the following command: chmod -R 775 ~/Desktop/working/Payload
Go into your ProgName.app folder within Payload.
Double-click the Info.plist file. Make sure there is a item called: SignerIdentity with a value of: Apple iPhone OS Application Signing. If there is not, add it.
Zip it all up. Zip the iTunesArtwork and Payload folder. (So zip up what is inside of the working folder)
Rename the zip file to have the name you want, and the extension of ipa.
Double click to install with iTunes
Actually, it is possible to provide iTUnes icons for iPhone software released as ad-hoc. See this blog post for more information.
I'll just add my recent experience. I had fooled around trying to get my ad hoc app to show up in iTunes with an icon (strictly, iTunesArtwork). Finally, I was convinced I had followed the instructions to a 'T' but it still wouldn't show up in the grid view. However, my artwork was properly displayed in the Cover Flow view. I deleted and reinstalled my app from/to iTunes to no avail. Then I quit iTunes and restarted - and, voila! - my artwork was correct in all places. It appears there is some kind of caching that is not reset in Grid view.
If you see a black square instead of you icon in iTunes, be sure that file type of iTunesArtwork in Xcode isn't "image.png". If so, in the copy resource build phase, CopyPNGFile will crash the file which invalid save for iOS divices.
Open your project in Xcode.
Copy iTunesArtwork.png file into project folder.
Edit iTuneArtwork.png file and remove .png from iTunesArtwork.
Generate build.
You can see image on iTunes.
The application icon only shows up in iTunes if your app is distributed through the app store.
I assume you are asking about a developer or ad hoc build. Those get the default black "A" icon.
I've got an iPhone app with icon file Icon.png.
This icon shows up properly when the app is on the phone itself, but it doesn't show up in the applications pane in iTunes.
What do I need to do to get it to show up properly?
The cleanest way to do this is described in the official Apple documentation, in a section called Publishing Applications for Testing. Below is the exact instructions given to you on that page:
The iTunes artwork your testers see should be your application’s icon. This artwork must be a 512 x 512 JPEG or PNG file named iTunesArtwork. Note that the file must not have an extension.
After generating the file of your application’s icon, follow these steps to add it to your application:
Open your project in Xcode.
In the Groups & Files list, select the Resources group.
Choose Project > Add to Project, navigate to your iTunesArtwork file, and click Add.
In the dialog that appears, select the ”Copy items” option and click Add.
Note that the PNG or JPEG file is just 'iTunesArtwork', with no suffix.
If you try to copy the file into the application bundle after you have built it, it will break the app signing, and you will get a verification error when trying to sync it to your device. Ensure that the artwork file is included in the "Copy Bundle Resources" folder, within your project's target in XCode (step 4, above).
Create a 512x512 png of your icon, name it "iTunesArtwork" (no extension, no quotes) and add it to your project under Resources. Then build.
More details here:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/ios_development_workflow/000-Introduction/introduction.html
In order to make it easier for those arriving at this post, here are the actual instructions (straight from the blog post linked from the accepted answer).
There has been some talk on twitter about how to create your own IPA file for your iPhone app, so I thought I would give the instructions that I have used to build an IPA before. Enjoy.
Create a folder on your desktop called “working”. Open that and create another folder inside of it called “Payload” (case-sensitive)
Move your iTunesArtwork file into the “working” folder and your .app into the Payload folder.
Open Terminal and run the following command: chmod -R 775 ~/Desktop/working/Payload
Go into your ProgName.app folder within Payload.
Double-click the Info.plist file. Make sure there is a item called: SignerIdentity with a value of: Apple iPhone OS Application Signing. If there is not, add it.
Zip it all up. Zip the iTunesArtwork and Payload folder. (So zip up what is inside of the working folder)
Rename the zip file to have the name you want, and the extension of ipa.
Double click to install with iTunes
Actually, it is possible to provide iTUnes icons for iPhone software released as ad-hoc. See this blog post for more information.
I'll just add my recent experience. I had fooled around trying to get my ad hoc app to show up in iTunes with an icon (strictly, iTunesArtwork). Finally, I was convinced I had followed the instructions to a 'T' but it still wouldn't show up in the grid view. However, my artwork was properly displayed in the Cover Flow view. I deleted and reinstalled my app from/to iTunes to no avail. Then I quit iTunes and restarted - and, voila! - my artwork was correct in all places. It appears there is some kind of caching that is not reset in Grid view.
If you see a black square instead of you icon in iTunes, be sure that file type of iTunesArtwork in Xcode isn't "image.png". If so, in the copy resource build phase, CopyPNGFile will crash the file which invalid save for iOS divices.
Open your project in Xcode.
Copy iTunesArtwork.png file into project folder.
Edit iTuneArtwork.png file and remove .png from iTunesArtwork.
Generate build.
You can see image on iTunes.
The application icon only shows up in iTunes if your app is distributed through the app store.
I assume you are asking about a developer or ad hoc build. Those get the default black "A" icon.