I have encountered a problem. My customer add me as Technical Role in his Itunes Connect account. Now I would like to test our iphone application on my iphone device. But I can not see where Provisioning profile portal anywhere. Would you please tell me how I create iphone provisioning profile with my Technical role?
I am appreciated with your help.
Thanks.
You can't create a provisioning profile, but you can request inclusion into the Team Provisioning Profile via Xcode's Organizer. After that, you need to wait until your customer approves your request.
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I am trying to submit an iOS app through iTunes Connect.
However, when I try to validate the app it gives me an error saying : "This app contains an embedded provisioning profile that is not associated with your account. Please use a provisioning profile associated with the Team ID.
Is this because I am using different accounts for creating the provisioning profiles and for iTunes connect ?
I'm guessing you have submitted your app before signed with a developer certificate from one account and now your trying to do it from another.
To fix it visit this website http://blog.hoachuck.biz/blog/2012/12/04/use-a-provisioning-profile-associated-with-team-id/
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I do think that using different accounts for creating the provisioning profiles and for iTunes connect will cause the issue. So just switch the provisioning files from the prov. acct for the itunes connect account. Provisioning files are easy to make, and Apple has a tutorial on what to do when you try to create one.
I have developed an iphone app for a client. Can I code sign app against the appstore distribution provisioning profile generated from my apple developer account, send it to the client & let him submit it to apple itunes from his apple developer account?
As i learned from my experience, this is not possible. You need to have the provisioning profile generated from the same developer account which you want to use to publish to the appstore.
Basically yes, but look into the xcode 4 archive organizer. You can share an archive with another Xcode. From there it seems to be possibe to do a re-signing. Since your client must use anyway his xcode for submitting to the AppStore, this might be a way to go.
I'm developing a iPhone app and need to send it to my client. In turn, my client will distribute it to many other people for end-user testing.
What kind of Provisioning Profile, Certificate, or Code Signing will accomplish this task? I've heard something about Ad Hoc certificates; is an Ad Hoc certificate relevant for this task?
Yes, ad hoc is exactly what you need for massive end user beta testings.
There is a very thorough and comprehensive tutorial about this, right from Apple. Log into your iOS dev center account ==>> iOS Provisioning Portal ==>> Distribution ==>> Prepare App
Yes, at this point the Ad-Hoc distribution certificate is what you are looking for. The Ad-Hoc certificate allows you to build your app to run on a predetermined list of devices. There are a couple big caveats though:
You need the UDID of every device you want the app to run on.
The user needs to install the provisioning profile for the app as well as the device manually. It's a simple case of dragging and dropping to iTunes - but we're dealing with normal people here... Not programmers.
To Create One: You add all the UDIDs for testing to iTunes Connect and then create a new ad-hoc distrubution profile and certificate. Build your app with the new certificate and the users should be good to go.
What I recommend: TestFlight
Testflight allows you to simplify this process immensely. You just build a normal debug IPA and then put it on TestFlight. They have their own global provisioning profile the users install and run the app with. It's as seamless as mass testing on iPhone can be (Granted, that's not a high bar).
Good luck :)
Note that Ad Hoc certificates are no longer used in the new Apple TestFlight. Testers are no longer added via UUID.
Test Flight builds now require an App Store Distribution Provisioning Profile. The portal does not allow UUIDs to be added to this type of provisioning profile.
Instead, add "Internal Testers" via iTunes Connect:
Internal testers are iTunes Connect users with the Admin or Technical role. They can be added in Users and Roles.
After adding a user, be sure to click on their name and flip the "Internal Tester" switch.
Then, go to App > Prerelease > Internal Testers and invite them to the build.
You can create ad-hoc testing certificates. Your client won't be able to distribute it to "many other people" though. You'll have to know all their device UDIDs and you'll have to add them to your provisioning profile. Remember you can only add upto 100 devices to your account.
My app's provision profile expired 2 days back, i created a new one and now it gives me the error:
Code Signing Entitlements Do Not Match Provisioning Profile
EveryThing is same,jus the profile name is changed..
Anyone here knws wat's the problem??
It can happen that you have not created your provisioning profile for the same application id.
The easiest is to create a provisioning profile for the app id "*" (in case you are not using special things, like push) - and you can use this provisioning profile for every application of yours.
Also - you can delete your provisioning profile from the apple developer website and your xcode organizer, and you click on the refresh button in organizer then xcode will talk to the apple dev website and download a new one for you.
Hope this helps, Moszi
At what stage of a iPhone app development do we need provisioning profile and developer certificate? What are their importance and from where we get them? And how do we distribute our iPhone app for testing by other users and finally to end customers in App Store, using provisioning profile or developer certificate or something else. Please throw some light on this matter!!!
You can develop apps for the iOS Simulator for free. If you are not yet testing your apps on actual devices, and are not submitting apps to the App store, then you don't need developer certificates.
When you get to the point you are doing either of the above, then you will need certificates and provisions, and can read about how to use them here in the Development Guide and here in the Store Resource page on Apple's developer site.
You will need to read and follow the instructions in these documents very carefully. Don't depend on any quick answer or assumptions.
A developer account will allow you to not only test on your device, but also to generate provisioning profiles for "ad hoc" provisioning, which allows you to share apps with up to 100 devices a year (your beta testers/clients/etc.).
You can't submit an app to the App Store before you have a developer account; and you shouldn't submit an app before having tested it on at least one device.