Demystifying iOS Provisioning Part 2: Creating and assigning certificates and profiles

Source: martiancraft.com --- Monday, August 07, 2017
In the first part of this article, we discussed what certificates and profiles are and how they are used for Apple platform development. In the second part of this article, we will be wrapping up the discussion by actually signing an app by creating all of the necessary signing assets inside of the developer portal and then placing them inside of Xcode. The tasks that we will cover in this article are: Creating an App ID inside of the developer portal Creating a development and App Store certificate Creating a development and distribution provisioning profile Creating a new scheme called “App Store” in the Xcode project Assigning certificates and profiles to each scheme A lot of the steps below will reference the Developer Provisioning Portal. This is the location on the Apple Developer website where you will perform the tasks for most of the headings below. If you already have a paid developer account, navigate to the Apple Developer website , select “Account,” then “Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles.” This is the Provisioning Portal where you will see sections for Certificates, Identifiers, Devices, and Provisioning Profiles. Creating App IDs An App ID is the way Apple registers and uniquely identifies your app, and registers your particular app’s bundle ID with your account to provision the services your app might access (iCloud, APNS, HomeKit, HealthKit, etc.). This process is required before creating a provisioning profi ...

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