I can't understand from Apple's docs if I need a production certificate or a development certificate...
You need to create a Distribution Certificate. The Distribution Certificate are used for creating Distribution Provisioning Profiles. Which will allow you to do the following:
Create an Ad-Hoc version of your app (this is used if you want to distribute to beta-users, testers, etc (this is what you want))
Create an App Store version of your app (You'll do this once you're ready to submit it to the App Store)
Below are the Apple steps on how to create an Ad-Hoc version of an app
Ad Hoc distribution allows you to share your application with up to 100 iPhone or iPod touch users, and to distribute your application through email or by posting it to a web site or server. To prepare your application, the following steps will need to be completed.
Create and Download an iPhone Distribution Certificate
Create and Download an Ad Hoc Distribution Provisioning Profile
Build your application with Xcode
Share your application file and the Ad Hoc Distribution Provisioning Profile with the owner of each device
Recipients of the application will need to drag the application file and Ad Hoc Distribution Provisioning Profile into iTunes, then sync their iPhone to iTunes to install
Hope this information points you in the right direction. If you need additional details or walkthroughs just let me know.
The SSL certificate you need is for production when you're building with a distribution provisioning profile. As far as push (apns) is concerned, ad hoc == app store. This is quite helpful, as you can test how push will work in the app store build by building an ad hoc app and using the production certificate.
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I want to post my iphone app on my website and users will be downloading it from my site.
which provisioning profile is required so that any user has access to install app on their iphone?(I cant go for appstore for distribution ).
Thanks in Advance.
This can be done only through an enterprise distribution program. You can create a "In-house" distribution profile, that can be installed on any iOS device. However it is supposed to be used by employees of an enterprise only. You can't post it on any public website, available to download for anyone.
You should have a Distribution Provisioning profile.
You can create AdHoc certificate for an Application and have your clients/users install them on their device.
P.S. :It has device limit of 100.
For more info visit link :
Adhoc provision profile
What is an Ad Hoc certificate for iOS test app distribution?
Another option is TestFlight to distribute your application among your clients.
Is there a way to test the App Store Distribution bundle that's to be submitted to iTunes Connect, on a device, e.g. iPod Touch?
Also, for the distribution bundle is it important to remove the file "Entitlemenets.plist"?
You can run a Distribution build on a device with your Ad Hoc provisioning profile.
(You can't launch it with the debugger though.)
Also, you can submit an Ad Hoc build to the App Store.
This is because both Ad Hoc and Distribution builds are signed with the same distribution certificate. (There is no separate "Ad Hoc certificate".)
Do not remove Entitlements.plist. It must be present.
Yes it is possible. All you have to do is first install your app with the Ad Hoc provisioning profile on your device. Then, when you have removed your app again, you can install it with a build signed with your App Store provisioning profile.
This works because when you install the Ad Hoc build, the Ad Hoc provisioning profile is installed on your phone, which adds your distribution certificate, which is the same used by the App Store provisioning profile. This is sufficient for your distribution build to run.
The provisioning profile is merely a set of rules explaining which devices are allowed to install your certificate. The Ad Hoc profile allows your registered devices to install your distribution certificate. The App Store profile allows App Store users to install it. Once the device has the certificate, they do not need to install it again and can use your app regardless of which profile is bundled in the app.
Step by step for Xcode to test your distribution bundle:
(Note: this does NOT require a jailbroken phone)
First time you want to test your app with a distribution build:
Create provisioning profiles for app store and ad hoc in provisioning portal and install them on your mac.
Archive your project
Press distribute and choose ad hoc / enterprise
Choose the ad hoc provisiong profile
Install the package on your iPhone (via iTunes or whatever way you prefer). Verify that the Ad Hoc profile is installed in your phone
settings
Remove app, but keep the installed profile on your phone
Now, every time you want to release your app and pre-test it with your
release build, you can do this:
Archive your project
Press distribute and choose ad hoc / enterprise
Choose the App Store provisioning profile
Install on your phone and test it (using iTunes, for example)
Upload the exported .ipa to App Store (via Application Loader)
You can test the equivalent of the App Store distribution bundle by creating a target identical to the App Store target except signed with an Ad Hoc provisioning profile.
check this out, you can actually test a distribution build :
http://nikhilkerala.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-test-app-store-distribution.html
I'm trying to figure out more details on how apps are distributed to users when under the Enterprise developer program. The Enterprise Deployment Guide states:
If you develop an application that you want to distribute yourself, it must be digitally signed with a certificate issued by Apple. You must also provide your users with a distribution provisioning profile that allows their device to use the application.
What I want to know is how is the provisioning profile is created so that a specific device is allowed to use the app? Is this done by adding device UDIDs into the profile as per the standard developer program? Or some other means?
Provisioning profiles are managed thanks a website provided by Apple. It will be possible to generate and download Provisioning profiles from this website.
Then, if you sign an application with the Enterprise program licence, you will be able to install it on any device. You just have to send to the user your application and the provisioning profile.
Regards,
I have a problem
There is one iphone software product of our company
and this product can recieve push_notification messages from our push_notification server
this product is going to be on live(namely it is going to be in the APPSTORE)
so recently we are doing some testing work,(the product use developer provision profile,and the server use the development certificate),it works well
but we want to test the product in the REAL Environment
the server should use production certificate ,
the iphone side product should use DISTRIBUTION PROVITION PROFILE
Now the problem is
1.how to install the product in the device using the DISTRIBUTION PROVITION PROFILE
instead of developer provision profile.
2.if I use the DISTRIBUTION PROVITION PROFILE,can i recieve the push notification message
I am now online waiting for your anwser
thank you all
You can only install builds that have been built for ad-hoc distribution on your device. Builds for app store distribution will not run on any device, unless approved and installed through the store, as their only purpose is being submitted to the app store.
1: Just build your app using an ad hoc provisioning profile. Delete previous versions of the app on the device. Install the ad hoc build and the ad hoc provisioning profile.
2: I have not tried that, but I think this should work, provided you're using the push enabled app-id for your ad hoc provisioning profile and the ssl key and certificate have been installed on your notification server.
I was under the impression that when you use a development provisioning profile for a build of an app, only the specified developers can deploy that build to a phone.
But I just deployed a build that uses a development profile to a phone using Xcode Organizer, even though I'm not one of the valid developers for that profile. One of my colleagues, who doesn't even have Xcode installed, did the same with his phone using iTunes.
In that case, why not use a development provisioning profile for distributing your app to e.g. your QA team, instead of ad hoc distribution?
EDIT: Please read the part in bold carefully before answering. I'm not asking a basic "how does this work" question. I've made a lot of development, ad hoc, and app store builds, and now I find that I seem to have made some wrong assumptions.
There's one situation in which you need an Ad Hoc profile, and that's when you want to test Push Notifications.
If you test Push Notifications on a Development Provisioning Profile, your push notifications need to be sent using the Development Push Notification Certificate for your SSL connections to Apple's sandbox APNS server.
If you want to test Push Notifications using your Production Push Notification Certificate and the live APNS servers, you'll have to deploy your app to a device using a Distribution Certificate and Ad Hoc Provisioning Profile (which includes doing the Entitlement.plist steps, which you can ordinarily skip if you were only using Developer Provisioning Profiles).
Also note that when you deploy using an Ad Hoc profile, your device token will be different from the one you use when you're using the development profile. This the recommended way to test APN because there's no back end changes that need to be made between the Ad Hoc build and the final live deployment on the AppStore.
Ad-Hoc is not for developers, but for testers. Who do not have iPhone SDK / XCode, iTunes only.
(The answer is: you can install ad-hoc app without developer certificate, and can't do it with development app)
Method 1: Install from XCode
The Development Provisioning Profile requires you to run the app (initially) from within XCode.
This has the side-effect of marking the device as being used for development, but also requires you to connect the iPhone/iPod Touch to the machine running XCode. Once you run the app from XCode, the app is installed on the device and you no longer need to be connected to the machine to run it. (Until you want to update the app.)
Method 2: Install from iTunes
An Ad-Hoc provisioning profile allows you to give the app to anyone and let them install it themselves using iTunes. You send them:
the app, and
the Ad-Hoc Provisioning Profile
They select these two and drag them onto iTunes. Then sync.
Later, you can give them an updated version of the app only (without the Ad-Hoc Provisioning Profile, since they've already installed that on their device) and they can drag the new app onto the iTunes icon to install the new version.
One limitation to Ad-Hoc distribution, is that it requires you to enter each Device ID into the iPhone Development Portal. And there is a limit to 100 device IDs per year (you cannot erase any IDs, until your next year begins -- only add them). The 100-ID limit will not be a hindrance for most developers, just keep in mind that you need to get the device ID ahead of time, before you create the Ad-Hoc Provisioning Profile to send to the person you want to install your app.