Appendix A. Help with iOS Certificates and Provisioning

Running test applications on your iOS device can be hard. It’s not as simple as dragging and dropping an application via iTunes to your device. No, all iOS builds need to be signed by a developer certificate and a provisioning profile that is tied to your Apple developer account.

You will need a Mac to set up a certificate and provisioning profile. Log into the member center. Click on “Manage your certificates, App IDs, devices, and provisioning profiles.” to open the Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles view (see Figure A-1).

The Apple developer portal
Figure A-1. The Apple developer portal

Certificates

Here are the steps for setting up your certificate profile:

  1. Click “Manage your certificates, App IDs, devices, and provisioning profiles.”
  2. Go to the Certificate Center and create a certificate. For development, you will need an iOS development certificate; when you want to start selling your apps in the App Store, you will need an iOS distribution certificate.
  3. While creating certificates, you will need to open the KeyChain Access tool on your Mac. (Use Spotlight search to find the tool if you have never used it before.)
  4. Within this tool, click on KeyChain Access ࢐ Certificate Assistant → Request… and then save the certificate request to your hard disk.
  5. In the developer portal, press the Continue button. The next step is to upload this ...

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