I signed up for TestFlight.
Then I followed all steps in this tutorial:
But Xcode throws this warning:
Application failed codesign verification. The signature was invalid,
contains disallowed entitlements, or it was not signed with an iPhone
Distribution Certificate. (-19011)
It smells like there is a lot more work to do than what they wrote in the tutorial.
Is there a complete tutorial which walks through every step without stepping over anything?
And do I need to add the SDK even for simple beta tests?
(Edit: No, SDK is not needed!)
Start with logging into the Provisioning Portal, and adding a test device or two, under Devices. Then go to Provisioning and create a new one for the appID you are working on and add those devices.
Back to Xcode and use the Organizer:Devices:Provisioning Profiles to download (refresh) the Provisioning Profile. Set your project's Debug scheme's signing to use that developer profile. You should then be able to build and then archive. Once archived, do an ad hoc distribution and save off that file to the desktop.
Go to your account on TestFlightApp.com and press the Upload Build button. Drop the file you saved on your desktop, into the Build upload area. TestFlightApp will give you errors if the app wasn't bundled for adhoc or signed properly.
Now, here is where TestFlightApp.com will save you work. Send out invites to friends from within TestFlightApp.com. TestFlightApp.com will manage notifying them and as they create an account, it will also help them find their UDIDs. These UDID's can be batched up and later downloaded by you and re-uploaded to the Apple Provisioning Center, into your devices section.
You then use Xcode to refresh your profiles, and rebuild the app, archive, and upload to testflightapp. Then you can select which one of your testers will get to see this build and what message they should be sent. Your testers will not have to figure out how to download the files and install them using iTunes or other app, they merely press the install button.
Believe me, while it is still a bit of work, it is so much better than not using TestFlightApp.com, especially if your users are not very savvy about app installation. In the future, you can use the TestFLight SDK to gather crash reports and usage information for your debug builds.
See the following for some more info: TestFlight beta-testing iOS app
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I created distribution profile and built app with the distribution profile. I have validated the build and the validation is successful.
After this step, i tried to cross verify the app once again and built an app with developer provisioning profile. Archive file is created successfully. But app is failing to install in mobile.
What is the reason behind it.
Make sure you dont have duplicate keys in your keychain. Delete the old ones and create a new key and prov file then everything will work fine. Normally just dupe entries can cause this.
there are 2 reason for this error
1) you are not add device UDID in your developer provisioning profile.
2) In your device an app is already install with same developer provisioning profile so the your app is not install in your device.
I followed the stepped to create a ad hoc carefully:
Added the testers team devices to the devices list in iOs Provisioning profile page
Created a new distribution profile for ad-hoc
In xcode I chose the project and clicked on product->archive.
I sent both the archive (ipa file) and mobile provision to the testers team.
The application failed to install.
I saw an answer of a developer to set in build settings the provisioning file to Code Signing Identities to the distribution profile here
In the list I can see only iOS Team Provisioning Profile that was created by xcode.
This is probably not the distribution profile.
What is missing? How can I set the build settings to the distribution ones?
In the IOS Provisioning Portal, in the Provisioning page, click the 'Download' button by your new distribution profile and it should get added to XCode.
To check you have it, go to XCode Organizer, Devices, then Library / Provisioning Profiles on the left.
You may also use https://testflightapp.com.
This is a free service and works very reliably - you can manage your testers and test ipa's easily.
First I also tried testing my app without such a service - but I ended up using this, since it's also very easy for the testers.
Create Distribution certificate and Provisioning profile.
You should have the Distribution certificate in key-chain.
Download Distribution Provisioning profile and double click on that profile.
Confirm you are having the profile in XCode -> Organizer.
In case the Add-Hoc deployment won't install on a testing device, and you have the device added to the profile, and the app signed correctly ...
Ok, what I did is to add an Entitlements.plist file and set the Can be debugged option to NO and set it on the target as the Code Signing Entitlements, but actually I don't know if this was the fix because I won't try again and again, now that it worked.
Then, actually I didn't archive the app and save the .ipa file from Organizer - Archives, but instead I've sent the .app file from the build/Release-iphoneos as it is, together with the profile downloaded from dev account. It will install in iTunes and it just worked, after couple of hours of frustration.
I am developing an app for iPhone. How can I test this app on my device?
What are the procedures to follow? Please give information regarding this problem.
Deploying iPhone Apps to Real Devices
http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/deploying-iphone-apps-real-devices
In brief:
Sign up for the iPhone Developer Program
Obtain an iPhone Development Certificate
Generate a Certificate Signing Request
Generate, download and install your provisioning profile
Download and install your Development Certificate
Deploy your iPhone application.
Things you will need are
your private key.
your provisioning profile (with the UUID of your device added).
go to project settings and change code signing entity to your
distribution profile.
then you can build and run after connecting your device.
1) Open Xcode,
2) Go to Active SDK, and select the OS version running on your test device (viewable by going to Settings->General->About on the device).
3) With your project open, click on "Build and Run" (or press Command-R) to run the project, which will prompt you to allow access to your keychain.
4) Once deployed, the app will run automatically.
Distribution
First of all, to run the app on your phisical device you must enroll to the apple developer program.
Second, generate a developer certificate and download it. Then, import the certificate into Xcode and here you go.
There are some steps you need to follow to test your app on your personal iPhone. Below you can find all the steps:
Creat MAC certificate at first step.
Second step is to upload that certificate to developer account.
Now you should open developer account at
http://www.developer.apple.com
You can now find an option for device id in your developer account on
left side.
Now you should register your iphone device.
It is time to create your unique identifier on developer account
Download your certificate and install it on xcode organize
Now open your project embed your unique identifier in your project.
These steps can be beneficial for all software testing gusy involved in mobile application testing.
I have a question on how exactly to do the final distribution build for my app. I have actually successfully built this app already but now I am trying to make an updated version and to remember what I did right the first time. It all seemed to go wrong when my provisioning profile expired....
Anyway, I have my distribution certificate and distribution provisioning profile. I have followed the instructions from Apple, an iPhone programming book and several online sources to create a build that checks against the right certificate etc. But the build always fails unless I connect a device, which is strange as the distribution provisioning profiles do not allow the inclusion of a device (which makes perfect sense in itself). However when I build with a device connected I am asked
'Can’t run XXX on the iPod “iPod
touch”
The iPod “iPod touch” doesn’t have the
provisioning profile with which the
application was signed.
Click “Install and Run” to install the
provisioning profile XXX on “iPod
touch” and continue running XXX.'
When I click install and run it fails with the message that
A valid provisioning profile for this
executable was not found.
So my basic question is how exactly should the final distribution build be done? An new executable appears, but it has a forbidden symbol on top of the application icon suggesting the build was unsuccessful.
Any help massively appreciated.
Don't click "Build and Go".
Either just build, and then locate the app and upload it, or use Xcode's "Build and Archive" option.
It is best to use "Build and Archive" as Xcode will look after the app bundle, and the important .dSYM file which is used to symbolicate crash reports for your app.
And you cannot upload and execute app that signed with 'Distribution' certificate on your device. Such app can only be uploaded to AppStore.
I have developed a number of apps using MonoTouch, and been using the emulator for the iPhone, now I need to deploy me application to my iPhone for further testing.
I have purchased the iPhone SDK from Apple, but I can't find how to deploy and activate the MonoTouch application to my iPhone.
Any pointers please?
As has been already stated you obviously need the paid version of MonoTouch and the iPhone SDK. Once you have those sorted you need to create a developer certificate in the iPhone developer portal, download it to your dev machine and add it into your keychain.
Once you have done that you must create a provisioning profile for your physical device, which again you do through the developer portal. Once you have the provisioning profile, download that to your machine, and add it to the iPhone via the Organiser app in XCode.
Then fire up MonoDevelop, and if it's all gone to plan then you should have the option of deploying the build to your iPhone. You can check that MonoDevelop has correctly detected your certs by opening up the Project Options window and under the Build section and under iPhone Bundle Signing, you should see your developer cert and provisioning profile.
Full details of the steps required on the Apple iPhone Dev Site
Here are the MonoTouch docs on building for distribution
http://monotouch.net/Documentation/Building_for_Distribution
It is my understanding that you have to have the Monotouch deployment license from Novell to deploy to a device.
According to your statement:
When I compile I get: "No Valid iPhone code signing keys found in
keychain.
This is actually a Xcode question more then a Monotouch one;
The message indicates that your keychain does not provide the signing keys used to generate the certificates and provisioning profiles.
If you follow apple's steps on generating certificate(request), followed by profiles they will also state you might want to export your private key (p13 file) and keep it somewhere safe.
If you move to another laptop for instance, you will need to import that key again to make the machine a valid one.
If something went wrong (ie: you accidentally removed your private key, ..) this message will be shown since there is no way for Xcode to verify that the profiles are being used on a valid machine.
Go to this instruction page (apple account credentials needed) to check if the steps have been followed and check in the Keychain access app on your mac if under My Certificates you see a developer certificate and - if you unfold it - you can see the private key as a child node.