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    Distributing Multiple Apps Readme PDF

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    This document provides instructions for building and distributing multiple iOS apps using a single wildcard provisioning profile. It describes creating a wildcard app ID in the developer portal, a distribution provisioning profile incorporating that app ID, and configuring Xcode projects to use that profile for distribution builds. The steps include cleaning targets, setting the code signing identity and provisioning profile, and verifying the build log to confirm successful code signing and use of the embedded profile.

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    This document provides instructions for building and distributing multiple iOS apps using a single wildcard provisioning profile. It describes creating a wildcard app ID in the developer portal, a distribution provisioning profile incorporating that app ID, and configuring Xcode projects to use that profile for distribution builds. The steps include cleaning targets, setting the code signing identity and provisioning profile, and verifying the build log to confirm successful code signing and use of the embedded profile.

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    This document provides instructions for building and distributing multiple iOS apps using a single wildcard provisioning profile. It describes creating a wildcard app ID in the developer portal, a distribution provisioning profile incorporating that app ID, and configuring Xcode projects to use that profile for distribution builds. The steps include cleaning targets, setting the code signing identity and provisioning profile, and verifying the build log to confirm successful code signing and use of the embedded profile.

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    Distributing Multiple Apps Readme PDF

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    This document provides instructions for building and distributing multiple iOS apps using a single wildcard provisioning profile. It describes creating a wildcard app ID in the developer portal, a distribution provisioning profile incorporating that app ID, and configuring Xcode projects to use that profile for distribution builds. The steps include cleaning targets, setting the code signing identity and provisioning profile, and verifying the build log to confirm successful code signing and use of the embedded profile.

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    Building Multiple Apps for Distribution and Validating Your Distribution Builds

    If you wish to build and distribute multiple applications, it is necessary that you create a wildcard App
    ID in the Program Portal with only an asterisk in the Bundle Identifier field. This wildcard App ID must
    be included in a single Distribution Provisioning Profile that will be used to build all of your
    applications.

    All Distribution Methods

    1. Delete any existing Distribution Provisioning Profiles from your Mac in ~/Library/MobileDevice/
    Provisions and ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles and close Xcode.
    2. Create a wildcard App ID in the iPhone Developer Program Portal - Simply place an asterisk in the
    Bundle Identifier field of the App ID to create a wildcard App ID.
    3. Create an iPhone Distribution Provisioning Profile in the Program Portal incorporating the wildcard
    App ID created above.
    4. Drag your new iPhone Distribution Provisioning Profile onto the Xcode or iTunes 7.7 icon in your dock
    to install it.
    5. Confirm that both the Private Key the corresponds to your iPhone Distribution Certificate AND the
    public iPhone Distribution Certificate are located in the Keys category of the Keychain application. The
    Private Key is housed on the system that originally created the certificate request for the iPhone
    Distribution Certificate.
    For each project, do the following once

    1. In the Project Info window, duplicate the Release configuration and title it Distribution.
    2. Set the Active SDK to Device and the Active Configuration to Distribution
    3. At the Project level, delete the code signing identity in the build pane and set the provisioning profile
    the the "default" setting. Ensure the Configuration in this window is set to Distribution.
    4. In the Build Settings Inspector at the Target level, enter the code signing identity: iPhone Distribution:
    COMPANYNAME. This will be the exact same string as found in the common name of your iPhone
    Distribution Certificate. In the diagrams below, Apple Inc. is the example COMPANYNAME. Make sure
    the Configuration is set to Distribution in the Build Settings Inspector as well.
    5. Select your iPhone Distribution Profile (which includes the wildcard App ID) from the Code Signing
    Provisioning Profile drop down menu.

    After setting all the projects up correctly with the Code Signing Identity and Provisioning Profile set
    only at the target level, do the following each time you build to ensure a successful build process.

    1. Open the Project.


    2. Select the Target and open the Build Settings Inspector. Confirm you are in the Distribution
    Configuration.
    3. Delete the Code Signing Identity: iPhone Distribution: COMPANYNAME
    4. In the Xcode Build Menu, select Clean all Targets.
    5. Re-enter the code-signing identity iPhone Distribution: COMPANYNAME in the Target Build Settings
    Inspector.
    6. Build your Project.
    7. Open the Build Log detail view.
    8. Search and Confirm the presence of the word "embedded" - this will take you to the line in the build
    log that shows the provisioning profile was successfully called.
    9. Confirm that the destination path (at the very end of the build message) is the app you are building.
    For example:
    ProcessingProductPackaging "/Volumes/Data/user/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/
    My_Distribution_Provisioning_Profile.mobileprovision" /Volumes/Data/user/projects/Distribution-
    iphoneos/HelloWorld.app/embedded.mobileprovision
    cd /Volumes/Data/user/projects/HelloWorld
    <com.apple.compilers.product-pkg-utility> "/Volumes/Data/user/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning
    Profiles/972DCBC8-5FB7-4970-B079-6A9141738355.mobileprovision" -o /Volumes/Data/user/projects/
    Distribution-iphoneos/HelloWorld.app/embedded.mobileprovision

    10.Search for the term CodeSign - this will take you to the line in the build log that confirms your
    application was signed by your iPhone Distribution Certificate.
    11.For Ad Hoc and Enterprise distributors, share your App bundles and iPhone Distribution Provisioning
    Profile with the owners of the devices specified in the provisioning profile.
    12.Recipients of the .app and .mobileprovision file can drag them onto iTunes 7.7 and sync their device
    to install.

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