Publishing your iOS app to iTunes

publish-ios-to-itunes.md

Publishing to iTunes

• Login to https://developer.apple.com/

  • Click on iOS Dev Center
  • Click on Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
  • Ensure that there is:
    • Under Certificates (Production), a certificate for iOS Distribution
      • To create a Certificate (Signing Identity), one needs to create a Certificate Signing Request
      • You can do this with Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Request a Certificate From a Certificate Authority
      • The Certificate comes with private key and public key, normally the private key would be stored in the machine that generated the initial request
      • To ensure all the certificates and profiles are exported properly to a new machine, you can use Xcode to export the developer profile
        • https://www.dropbox.com/s/ikj8uehrtkk0v3b/xcode-export-developer-profile.png?dl=0
    • Under Identifier, an App ID for your new app
    • Under Provisioning Profiles (Production), a Provisioning Profile for the relevant App ID
      • Each Provisioning Profile is tied to a Certificate (Signing Identity)

• Open Xcode and add your iOS Developer account, Preferences > Accounts

  • The provision profiles and etc should be automatically downloaded and added to Xcode
  • If you can't find the relevant items there you can download from developer.apple.com and load it manually

• Login to https://itunesconnect.apple.com/

  • Go to My Apps, and add New iOS App and follow the steps.

• Open Xcode

  • Setup your app to use the correct Provision Profiles and Code Signing Identity
    • You can choose Automatic for the Provisioning Profile, and under Release, just choose the relevant Identities that are listed
    • Got a screenshot here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/duwpx0du98e90ir/xcode-provisioning-settings.png?dl=0
  • Click Product > Build. If no issues, then click Product > Archive.
  • And you will be shown the Organizer.
    • Click Validate and follow the steps.
    • Once that is successful, you can click Submit, and follow the steps.

• Using TestFlight in iTunes

  • When you submit for TestFlight in iTunes, it takes a while to process the binary
  • User needs to have TestFlight app installed on device
  • Please invite the user with the email that they use for iTunes

Exporting Certificate for Push Notification

• Use the machine that generated the certificate request
• Open Keychain Access app
• Search for certificates with push
  • You should look for 3 things a certificate, a public key and a private key
  • It would have the following in their names:
    • Apple Production IOS Push Services
    • Push Notification
  • Right click on each and export the out
  • For the private key, they would require a password