Recently, after upgrading to Lion and Xcode 4.2.1 I am getting this error when trying to run my app on my iPhone 4S:
"The application bundle does not contain a valid identifier."
My identifier is indeed valid, and I have been able to run my app with this identifier earlier.
The problem might appear when I change computers.
I have two computers that I am using to code my app, and I am using Dropbox to keep track of my files.
Restarting XCode, my mac and my iPhone does not work.
Cleaning the target and rebuilding does not work.
The only thing I have been able to do to fix it is to create a completely new project and moving my files. This made things work until I swapped computer. Now I am in the same trouble again.
Any idea? Anyone?
Three suggestions:
Check that your developer key is in both computers
Did you try to update the project? There is a strangly-named key in the middle bottom under the project's properties. Try this.
I had similar issues. I found that some things weren't updated when I updated osx and xcode. To get out of the situation, I would suggest creating a new project and copy paste code, files and build settings. This might seem stupid, but you know apple is not good at creating IDE's. You might just get your self lost in the undocumented settings.
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No matter what I try, I get an Argument is Invalid error in Xcode when I try to build to my iPhone. It works fine in the simulator. The problem is not specific to one project, it happens with any project, even when I create a new one. When I run the console it displays this
I tried deleting and re-adding the provisioning profiles, and I've gone through every setting to look for spaces because I heard these can cause this error. Can anyone help? I don't know what else to try.
If you have a symbolic link (ln -s) in your project directory, it will work on the simulator, but cause a “The argument is invalid” error if the target is a real iOS device. (Xcode 4.5.2)
You may check if you have a space somewhere in the settings, such as the product name or so. These cause these kind of errors in many cases....
Also sometimes a symlink in your bundle can be the reason - depending on how you set up your file structures in the app bundle...
Actually this looks like and xcode error because it cant find those .m files. So here is a post that responded to hopefully it helps. It looks like you are gonna have to do some installation and reinstallation. XCode Update - iOS Link Error
I am assuming you are working with Git. This often happens due to issues in your local build. Take the latest pull from the develop branch and check if this solves your issue. If this doesn't work, you might want to manually check the build settings for your app.
I've recently upgraded my Mac to Lion, and also Xcode 4.
In Build Settings, I've set "Code Signing" for "Release" to be "iPhone Distribution" which matches our Ad-Hoc provisioning file (which we've used in the past, on Snow Leopard/Xcode 3).
I have deleted the old Entitlements file (as it's apparently no longer used by Xcode 4).
In the Scheme section, I've set Archive to use the Release build.
I'm building with Product > Archive.
I'm saving the file by going into the Organiser and clicking Share, then making sure the same Ad-Hoc provisioning is selected.
I'm sending the resulting IPA file to my boss, who has previously installed this app. When he tries to install it, he gets the message "[appname] could not be added to your itunes library because it is not a valid app".
I've been trying every combination of settings I can think, but we just cannot get this to work. I can find this error only twice in Google - once from someone with a jailbroken phone and another posted in comments of an article, someone having the same issue, but there are no responses.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Edit: Same thing happens trying to drag the IPA into iTunes on the Mac that created it! :(
Edit2: Just taken another (almost identical) project and tried a build without "Modernizing" the project, or selected any of the new options in Xcode (icons, launch images, orientation etc.), and this build works. I'm going to work through each of the things I did with the original app with this one, testing at each step. Hopefully should be able to isolate which step is breaking the compiled app!
(also posted to Apple Dev Forums)
I believe I've tracked this down... It seemed to be happening really intermittently, so it's taken some time (I'd reproduce it, roll back the change, confirm it worked, then re-apply the change, for it to then work again!).
However, after much cleaning/restart/etc., I believe it's related to the "Build" version in the target settings (there are now two version fields, "Version" and "Build"). It seems that if "Build" is blank, then this error occurs.
Unfortunately, changing this value doesn't seem to rebuild properly, so sometimes if you change it, then Archive, you still get the previous value. Manually cleaning before Archiving seems to work around this.
The value gets written into the plist file as CFBundleVersion.
Recently I suffered a problem with an Ad-Hoc installation using TestFlight service, the message in the log didn't help too much:
Jul 25 12:52:39 MyiPad installd[477] <Error>: 0x10059c000 init_pack_state: Archive we've been requested to install is 0 bytes. That can't be a valid ipa.
After many tests, I found this question and the problem was the same, the Build field was empty (this answer save my day :-) )
So, if anyone else has this problem on TestFlight, I hope my answer allows to find this page easier ;-)
I also faced the same issue. After doing some research found below answers as:
App Version and Build version should not blank.
Don't put special characters in my app bundle name.
And also there was no issues with my provisioning profiles.
After debugging found that there was name mismatch in my scheme name and info.plist file name. In my project, I have 3 schemes like a,b,c and only one a-info.plist file. I was creating IPA for different scheme like 'b'.
In your scenario, if you have created multiple schemes then check your Info.plist name. That should have to be same as your scheme name (for which you are creating an IPA).
Example. The scheme name is 'myScheme' then your Info.plist file name as 'myScheme-Info.plist'.
Hope this will help you.
I got the same message ("not a valid app"). In my case, I was FTPing the built app to a web server then I would be able to OTA provision it. I was not swapping to binary mode before I was putting the file, so the .ipa file got corrupted on the way. Took me most of the evening to figure that stupid mistake out...
ok.. do one thing.. Open info.plist.. Go to bundle identifier and change bundle identifier name. It needs to be unique.. something like "com.yourcompany.projectname" and create and try to install the ipa.. It should work
I came across this question while researching a similar problem so I'll answer here even though the cases are not identical, because others will search for the same error message.
I had an ad-hoc app that everyone in the development team could install fine, except one person, who got the error from iTunes:
X is not a valid app
He had been able to install earlier versions of this app. Rebuilding the app, changing the version number and changing the build number had no effect, he still could not install but others could.
I fixed it by creating a brand new Xcode project, either copying the files or copying and pasting the content of the files from the old project to the new one, and rebuilding the app and signing it in exactly the same way as the old project. It worked.
I had a similar issue while trying to create an .ipa for adHoc distribution for one of the Old project (built a year ago by ex-developer). After a lot of research in google and following the above solutions it didn't worked out for me somereason.
Later after following this link - here. By replacing the .plist file with the existing working projects (obviously - the relevant icons/bundle display name/identifier) and renaming with the current .plist name. It worked for me.
I literally spent about 3-4 hours to fix this issue. Hope it helps some one.
environment was native - iOS app.
add......
"Application requires iPhone environment" in your info.plist or if added give it value "YES".
Check "Build" and "Version" in general are not empty....
hope this will work
Importing the project contents in to a new Project solved the issue for me.
For me, we were trying to do an enterprise build of a very old app, from iOS 5.
After confirming profiles and everything else was fine, debug builds work correctly, I noticed the general consensus was around issues with the info.plist file.
I compared the info.plist with another app and sure enough,
Application requires iPhone environment = NO
Basically this key needs to always be set to YES for iOS apps regardless whether its for iPhone, iTouch or iPad...
It may not be limited to that key for everyone but make sure the info.plist looks similar to working apps.
Bundle version
Bundle versions string, short
should always be present!
right.. but I guess it is clashing with earlier bundle identifier( this happens because you have upgraded the Xcode). Did you try and change the existing bundle identifier name and install ? I had identical problem and wasted 3-4 days.. I changed existing bundle identifier name and it worked.. Also you may want to check Bundle name and Bundle version are present in info.plist
So I have this app that is already on the app store. To get support for multi language localization we recently changed the localization configuration.
Old configuration:
./Localizable.strings
New Configuration:
./Swedish.lproj/General.strings
./Swedish.lproj/Localizable.strings
./Swedish.lproj/Settings.strings
If I remove the old version and install the new one everything works as expected, but if I leave the old version on the phone when I install the new one, the translations in ./Swedish.lproj/Localizable.strings won't be visible. So it seems to me like the old ./Localizable.strings is still left on the phone, hiding the new ./Swedish.lproj/Localizable.strings. The translations in ./Swedish.lproj/General.strings and ./Swedish.lproj/Settings.strings both works.
My fear is that if we release the update as is the users would be forced to uninstall the app before installing the update to get the translations to work, which would mean that they lose all their saved data. So you can see why this issue has high priority.
If I have understood the cause of the problem correctly, my question is how do I get rid of the ./Localizable.strings already present on the phone? The more general question would be how do I solve this problem?
Are you testing this in debug mode and Xcode is installing the new binary onto the device/simulator or are you doing an Adhoc build-and-archive and then test the update via itunes?
I know that xcode at times will not overwrite files when doing an build and run in debug mode. A touch of the file will not help, but only a clean-all, exit and restart of both Xcode and simulator cures it.
If you are using the adhoc build then the complete app bundle sould be overwritten. If this is not working something serious is at fault.
Application Settings.bundle contains a version number, which is automatically generated during build. From build log I can see that new value is written there, also when looking inside the file itself in MacOS X Finder I see correct updated value.
Settings in iPhone simulator or in real iPhone shows me the old value. Removing application and reinstalling is so far the only way I've managed to get the new updated value visible.
Question: how can I force iPhone Settings application to read my new latest updated bundle file?
Some background info, which might or might not be related: I install application only via Xcode into both simulator and iPhone. Is this the problem? Just found this in Apple docs, not sure what it actually says. Seems to contradict itself (last chapter)...
Each time you reinstall your application, iPhone OS performs a clean install, which deletes any previous preferences. In other words, building or running your application from Xcode always installs a new version, replacing any old contents. To test preference changes between successive executions, you must run your application directly from the simulator interface and not from Xcode.
So Xcode always replaces old content, but to test changes I cannot use Xcode? What was that? Done both (after installation via Xcode) and didn't see new values in settings. Any ideas how does it actually work? Do I always have to make non-Xcode installation?
Try cleaning and building. It seems that xcode caches dates and doesn't notice the change that your script is making. I've had similar things happen, clean always fixes it, but it is indeed a nuisance.
Make sure to shut down the Settings app running in the background on device. It looks like Settings caches settings while it's running - but pulls the updated values when the Settings app is re-launched.
In my case, it seems that my modified root.plist, created/edited via the Xcode property list editor, just wasn't being saved.
There was no problem at all with the Settings Bundle being copied over to the iPad. A quick cmd-S followed by a rebuild and go/debug updated Settings on the iPad straight away - no app uninstall/reinstall even needed. You'd think there'd at least be a haven't-saved-it warning from Xcode, as there always is for code source files.
I just tried this and it worked.
In Xcode go to : Window->Organizer,
then view installed apps on the connected iPad/iPhone, remove the app, then recompile and run your app on the device.
I think the issue has something to do with the iPad's cache.
I set up all my certificates and keys today and am trying to run my project on my iPhone.
I'm encountering this strange error:
Your mobile device has encountered an unexpected error (0xE800003A) during the install phase: Verifying application
Poking around the Apple Developer forums, I've attempted to set new certificates and provisioning profiles as well as editing Info.plist, but no matter what I do I can't seem to run the app on my device.
The only think I can currently think of is that my project name in Xcode differs slightly from my development provisioning profile (it uses a question mark), but I've named it according to Apple's conventions: com.mycompany.myapp, so I'm unsure if that's the problem.
Any ideas?
Edit: I've hard restarted the phone, rebooted Xcode, cleaed my targets, set up a new wildcard App ID and respective provisioning profile and still nothing. Any other ideas?
It turned out that I had 2 certs in keychain that were simultaneously overwriting each other! I hope this helps people in the future.
You should create a wildcard app ID; com.mycompany.*. That may help.
I've encountered this on many occasions. What i do is clean all targets, shut down xcode, and hard reboot my phone.
This is a different error than the more common problem of getting the cert wrong...
Restore the phone (using the XCode Organizer to reload the latest OS), to be safe do not restore from backup when you sync with iTunes the first time (it'll still keep your number when you sync even if you don't use the backup). I've had to do this a very few times, the last one was when it was in the middle of deployment when I unhooked the phone from the cable (had to answer a call).
Try the reboot (of the phone) first, hooking it up with XCode off. But if that does not solve things, restore is the way.
The console tab in the XCode Organizer sometimes gives helpful hints as to what happens during the install phase. In one case my problem was my app already existing on the phone. I deleted my app and the install succeeded.
Regardless, it looks like a lot of error messages are bundled into this one cryptic message and to really diagnose what is going on, I found the Console tab very useful...
One other thing to try is reinstalling the iPhone SDK. I ran into an error like this when I first got my developer key and this was the only way around.
Just want to say to everyone, when you go to edit Targets-> be sure to set "configuration" in the top left corner to "All Configurations" or the correct config you are building for (Debug or Release). You might think you have things set correctly but it will be for the wrong configuration.
I've seen that error on a correctly provisioned device that has had success installing apps from XCode before, and I've had luck restarting the device and trying again. Maybe that will help.
Try running in Release mode instead of Debug. I have a working project with this problem. No idea what the issue was, but running it in Release mode works, but Debug mode produces the error code.
I have a support ticket open with Apple dev support for the same problem, and (FWIW) I'll post their recommendations if and when they can get my toolchain working.
Try this: (source: http://ephemera.lifewithalacrity.com/iphone_development/)
Even though this is supposedly only for Distribution builds, it helped me to be able to install my Debug version on my iPhone again, after it mysteriously broke yesterday.
"just triple check that all the code signing in your project properties are clear or default"
Note, this is the PROJECT properties as opposed to the TARGET properties. I set my Code Signing Provisioning Profile back to the default and removed the Code Signing Identity string.