Provisioning New Device for Development Xcode

While I was sleeping, Apple completely abolished the Portal and created a new and apparently largely broken interface. It’s like a kind of evil April Fools joke. Anyway, if you go to https://developer.apple.com/account/ios/device/deviceList.action there’s a great big sign telling you that you must “reset your device list before adding any new devices”. That sounds like … Read more

What is the difference between In House versus Ad Hoc distribution for Enterprise apps?

Ad-Hoc releases have to be provisioned to specific devices. Your account allows you to register up to 100 devices. In-House is for distribution to any company device. So in most cases In-House can serve all your needs. But in the event that you wanted someone who was not part of your company to test something … Read more

Why not use development provisioning instead of ad hoc?

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 … Read more

Publishing to TestFlight, new testers, do I really need to rebuild/download my provisioning profile?

No need to rebuild the .ipa Upload the .ipa Send invitations to testers Add their devices to provisioning profile Download the approved profile Go to TestFlight builds >> Permissions >> Upload profile … Click Send Email/Update You’re done – the new user get’s the link to download the app. Hope that helps.