IPhone dev newbie: please straighten out my misconceptions about ad hoc...
I have to admit I am going in circles a bit about distributions and such, and I hope somebody with more knowledge than me can correct my statements here and clarify a few basic points for me.
I'm developing a little iPhone app. It's all working fine in the simulator, and now I want to pass it on to a few people I know for testing.
I have their 40 hex digit iPhone device id numbers and I have registered their devices in the portal.
Now yesterday, what I thought happened was this:
(1) I created a development certificate.
(2) I created a development provisioning profile for the app for one person's device.
(3) That person (who is also helping me develop the app) somehow installed the app on her iPhone, where it also worked.
One time she did it from within the Xcode IDE itself. Then I thought we tried her clearing the app on her iPhone, taking the binary and the provisioning profile and dragging into her iTunes applications area, synching and also installing it on her iPhone that way.
Were we both mistaken as to what actually happened? Is installing the app with a development provisioning profile via iTunes impossible? Is it necessary, for such an "ad hoc" distribution to create a distribution provisioning profile (which I haven't done yet) and build the app a different way?
Do development builds all have to be installed on the device via Xcode? Is it not possible to install apps with development provision profiles on actual devices via iTunes only?
Also, if only one distribution provisioning profile is possible, why does the panel say "Distribution Provisioning Profiles" (plural) and have a UI to add more?
As you can see, I am struggling with some of these terms and what to do.
My immediate goal is to provide a test copy of the app to somebody to try for beta testing. That person is not a developer and doesn't have Xcode installed and I would like the person to be able to take the binary and some provisioning profile (does it have to be a distribution provisioning profile?) and install it just via iTunes.
Can somebody straighten me out a bit on what is possible as far as installing development builds and distribution builds on devices?
I seem to be missing something here. I've read the 40 page iPhone Developer manual that comes with the standard program, but I am just confused about the "ad hoc" distribution business.
Thanks,
doug
Thanks for your note. I'm still confused though. The Entitlements.plist file is mentioned in the manual procedure. But in that procedure it also says to then go and build the project as per the instructions for distribution, which includes acquiring a distribution provisioning profile. We didn't a distribution provisioning profile at all yet, but somehow were able to make an iTunes drag-and-drop install version for the device we created a development provisioning profile for.
The tab in the portal about ad-hoc distributions, on the other hand, doesn't say anything about the Entitlements.plist.
There seems to be two completely different procedures for this (maybe there are two ways of accomplishing the same goal?)
One set of instructions seems to say I need a distribution provisioning profile and the other doesn't mention it though.
Also, I can understand why, when creating an ad-hoc provisioning profile you can check multiple devices. But what does it mean to check multiple certificates?
Agh!
doug
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