iOS Provisioning Profiles cheatsheet

Types of profiles

• Development - deploy to an iPhone via XCode
• Adhoc - deploy via testflightapp.com
• Appstore - only used for submitting to the app store

Requirements

Obtaining a CSR file

Needed for Adhoc & Appstore builds.

• Open Keychain Access.app
• Keychain Access menu -> Certificate Assistant menu -> Request a certificate…
  • User email address is your email
  • Common name is your name
  • CA Email address is blank
  • Request is Saved to disk

Get the .cer files

Needed for Adhoc & Appstore builds.

• in the iOS dev portal, go to Certificates, and download the certificate.
  Install it on the dev machine.

Obtaining device UDIDs

Needed for Dev and Adhoc builds.

• via iTunes: http://whatsmyudid.com
• via XCode: cmd+shift+2 (Organizer), Devices

For developers

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Using a provisioning profile

No need to use .mobileprovision files since XCode 5.

• Open the *.mobileprovision file using Finder
• XCode Project -> Build settings tab -> Code signing section -> Provisioning Profile section
  • Set Debug to the development profile
  • Set Release to the ad-hoc profile

Building an .ipa (Adhoc or Appstore)

• In the toolbar, select “iOS Device” as the target
• Product menu -> Archive
• In the Organizer (Cmd+Shift+2) -> Archives tab -> Distribute… button