Programming iOS 6, 3rd Edition

Profile and Device Management

Your central location for surveying provisioning profiles, identities (certificates) and devices is the Devices tab of the Organizer window (Window → Organizer). Under Library, select Provisioning Profiles for a list of profiles. Under Teams, you’ll see a list of your developer identities and their associated certificates.

As someone with more than one computer, I find the coolest feature of this interface to be the Export button at the bottom of the window. When you click it, you’re asked for a password (twice), which can be anything you like; it outputs a .developerprofile file. On another computer, run Xcode and double-click that .developerprofile file in the Finder. Xcode asks for a password. Enter the same password you gave previously, and like magic the entire suite of teams and identities and certificates and provisioning profiles springs to life in that other copy of Xcode, including the entries in your keychain.

When a device is attached to the computer, it is listed with a green dot under Devices. Click its name to access information on the device. You can see the device’s unique identifier. You can see provisioning profiles that have been installed on the device. You can view the device’s console log in real time, just as if you were running the Console application to view your computer’s logs. You can see log reports for crashes that took place on the device. And you can take screenshots that image your device’s screen; you’ll need to do this ...