Are you required to have a certificate and provisioning profile to start building and testing with PhoneGap? If not, is there another way to test your application?
I would prefer to save myself the $99 for now and just get a developer account once my application is finished.
No need for certificate and provisioning profile when developing with steroids. Download AppGyver scanner app from itunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/appgyver-scanner/id575076515?mt=8
Open terminal and go to your steroid project dir, type: "steroids connect --serve".
Your web browser will open and show a QR-code. Scan the QR-code with AppGyver scanner app and your steroid application will run on the device. Fast and simple.
Yes, there is another way. You can use the simulators to test your application. And if you would want to test on a device then you could look more into Steroids and the Appgyver Scanner to help you out.
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I just upgraded to Xcode 8.
Started getting this error when i try to run my app on my iphone:
Things i have verified
My iphone is listed in the dev portal with the correct UDID
I have removed and re-added the provisioning profiles many times in xcode
Any ideas guys?
Do you have automatic code signing activated? What's the log output of the Sign step (see Report Navigator for a specific build)? Does the Sign step use your correct Signing Identity and Provisioning Profile? If not, you need to open the project's General Tab and either
activate Automatic Code Signing
(Check "Automatically Manage Signing")
or configure the Development Team and Provisioning Profile yourself
I'm new to windows phone, and I don't have a real device to test on.
I know that one can install .XAP files from SD card.. but does this process reqires internet access to check that the app is on the store or I just installs it as in Android?
Thanks in advance
You can debug your app on your physical device in Visual Studio. Your device has to be connected via usb cabel to your computer and has to be developer unlocked. You can developer unlock your phone with the Windows Phone Developer Registration Tool, which is a part of the Windows Phone SDK. You can find more information about the process here.
No, you cannot install the xap package on other people devices until unless their phones are not developer unlocked. When you build a .xap package in Release mode, you need to first upload it to Store where the Microsoft team checks package for security concerns. Once that has been checked, package verified, then the packages can be installed, basically uploading the app.
To debug the app, its better to unlock your friend's phone and then test it on it. After that if you wish you can also un-register the phone to revert back to original developer locked mode.
There is one more method which I use when my app is completed but do not wish to release the app on store, but instead, I wish that first these apps be used by my friends first, they give feedback and after that I finally submit the app on Store.
To do this, I submit the app in private visibility on Store. There is an option while submitting the app which indicates whether you want that other users can see your app on phone. I mark it Hidden. Once my app is verified and is on store, I download the app from store by going to the appropriate link of app on store which is given in app profile at dev-center. I choose 'Download and Install Manually' option to download the xap. This xap can be installed on other devices without unlocking their device.
I've created an iOS7 project in Xcode 5. It's a very simple app. I zipped it and sent it to another developer. When they open it, they get these messages:
No matching code signing identity found
No code signing identities (i.e.certificate and private key pairs)
matching "iPhone Developer" were found. Xcode can resolve this issue
by downloading a new provisioning profile from the Member Center.
How do they get around this? The app isn't going to be submitted to the app store.
Is this happening because they have not linked Xcode to their online developer account? Isn't an online developer account free?
The other developer can ignore that message if the intention is to run the app on the Simulator. But you must use code signing in order to run an app from Xcode on a device, even for testing purposes, even if the app is never going to be submitted to the App Store. And that costs $99/year. End of story.
You could turn your account into a Company account and put this developer on your company; that way the developer is covered under your $99.
Or, if you just want to send the app to someone for testing and you don't need them to run the app directly from Xcode on a device, you can create an Ad Hoc build targeted to their device.
And of course the developer can look at your code, test on the simulator, and run your previously built Ad Hoc build on the device - but not run from Xcode on the device, i.e. the developer can not build for a device without someone paying that $99/year fee.
I'm in the process of learning iOS development and app submission process. Before trying to archive my application I only tested and debug it on iOS 6 simulator and now I want to deploy this application on real device. And during this I encountered with some problems.So, what steps I must implement in order to successfully archive my application and get an .app and then an .ipa file of it. How to setup provisioning profiles and solve code signing error?
You need to go to the provisioning portal at http://developer.apple.com and generate provisioning profiles for your applications there.
If you have not paid your developer license fee you will not be able to install your apps on real devices.
You will need to get a Developer and or Distribution certificate including their respective Private keys. You will also need a Team Provisioning Profile, or a Provisioning Profile specifically made for the app. You can either make all these yourself through the provisioning portal at http://developer.apple.com Or if you are working for someone else who has a developer program license, they could possibly provide you with all these.
The provisioning profile describes all the steps you need to take to implement the certificates and provisioning profiles so you can build and deploy / distribute your app.
I am developing a proof-of-concept tool for an internal research project.
We have specific needs which can only be met by running our application as a system app, like the Settings or Phone app.
Am I right in thinking that the only way to run an application under the system user (uid=1000) is by setting the following in the manifest:
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.frogdesign.desktop"
android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system" >
and signing my application with the platform certificate?
If so, for a given phone, e.g. Galaxy S, this would require us to sign using Samsung's certificate. Not going to happen, right.
So if we root the phone and stick something like cyanogenmod on it, would the required certificate be cyanogenmod's platform certificate?
Is this generally made available?
I am fairly confident that you would not be using the manufacturer's key. On my Galaxy S, the Gmail app is a system app, and you can update it from the Android Market (i.e. it's signed, if it is at all, by Google and not by Samsung).
If the phone is deodexed, you should be able to just move the app to /system/app/ (or /system/priv-app/ on newer OS versions). This requires a rooted phone, so that you can mount the system partition as writeable. This is in conjunction with your manifest settings, of course. I'm not sure if that's sufficient, since I haven't done this myself, but it's something to try.