So I made my first iphone application; I want to test for memory leaks and the general feel and design of the user interface, so how do I put it on my iphone?
There is documentation on the developer portal which guides you through provisioning a phone for development purposes. Using Xcode you can set your target to the device after you follow the steps in the dev portal (really simple, but I'd like you to read them from there to ensure you are actually in the program) then you will be able to build and run or build and debug and it will install the app to your phone, where it will run and you can debug it there, attach instruments, etc.
EDIT: Link as requested.
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To publish an IPA
I go to publish -> Distribute ad hoc/enterprise -> and then I publish the app
However, I can only publish an IPA with a distribution profile, this means I don't get any debugging on my phone.
How can I publish distributed profiles on test flight?
Solved it.
For ANYONE having this problem (i.e. being able to use a development certificate instead of production), follow the following steps.
---- Downgrade your ITunes VERSION to 11.1.5, otherwise it will complain when you try to do an iTunes sync that iTunes doesn't have enough memory!! (Titanium need to fix this!)
1) Download 11.1.5 from here http://mac.filehorse.com/download-itunes/4050/
2) Go to Applications, and Delete itunes... If you get an error message saying something like "This app is require by OSX" just go to Get Info > Sharing & Permissions > Everyone ... it has to say Read & Write.
3) Install the itunes you just downloaded
4) Open it (You might need to hold you "alt" key while opening so you can create a new library (11.2 changed something in your library that is not compatible with 11.1.5)
Then publish app USING ITUNES SYNC. (this is the ONLY way to get the development .IPA)
The app will now be in your app folder within iTunes.
You will now be able to upload your app onto test flight - a development version using a development APNS certificate. Also because it is in development mode, means that you will be able to see all error problems either through Xcode or Iphone configuration. If you publish an ad-hoc system based on production, it will not print out any Ti.App.Info etc commands in the device console.
Hope this helps! :)
How can I create automated user interface tests for a Titanium app? Does the framework include something for this? Are there any helpful third party tools?
Have you looked at titanium-jasmine?
I have never personally used it but ive heard its pretty useful for this type of thing. I'm not sure about its abilities to test actually visual elements.
EDIT:
For testing the user interface and simulating touch events on the simulator or device, just use UIAutomation with the native workflow! Since every Titanium project compiles to an XCode project (which can and should be at least profiled for memory leaks using the native workflow before release to the app store), you can just follow the steps here to write your own tests in Javascript.
As a first step, run your app in the simulator, then got to PROJECT_HOME/build/ and open up the xcodeproj file. Once inside XCode, hold down the "Run" button, click "Profile", which will open up "Instruments" and add the "Automation" widget like in the link I provided!
This is not titanium specific, it can be used for any iOS app and seems like a great tool for every iOS developer, along with Allocators and Memory Leak widgets inside of instruments.
Possibly a better alternative is using Gorilla Logic's free MonkeyTalk. It is a bit more straightforward if your not very experienced with XCode, and it has the benefit of (theoretically) being able to test iOS and Android.
I'm developing iOS apps and I'd like to share my apps with TestFlight testers. This is not the problem and works fine (via email). However, when I'm uploading a new build, I'd like to have in-app updates.
The SDK describes this as being possible, but I don't see anything from an update in my app.
I closed the app from "Multitasking".
I added the SDK to my project and in the AppDelegate my TeamToken, Checkpoints, etc. work fine.
Any ideas?
On testflight, have you enabled the force upgrade? (Your Application -> Build -> Build information -> Forced upgrades)
Also please make sure that the activity report is showing your session when you start your app.
I've created a Ad Hoc distribution profile with a couple of devices. If I want to add a couple of devices to the profile, I have to create a new profile and a build in XCODE for my app with the assigned profile.
Is there a way to make this easier? A way to make the management of the devices more simple? Without rebuilding and redistributing the app.
I hope someone can help.
You can't change the list of devices an ad-hoc app will work on without at least re-signing with xcode and redistributing the app. Sorry! I suppose Apple feel it opens up non-appstore distribution methods if you can add devices to an app already out there.
In fact you can!!
You don't have to recompile your project again. You don't even have to open XCode.
All you have to do is create a new mobileprovision file and distribute it with the existing app.
Your end users have to download and install the new mobileprovision file and app, by this order.
Here is a step-by-step.
Hugo Maurício
Just a quick q about iOS development..
I'd love to be able to run a certain game emulator on my iPad..
If it's released under open source is there any thing stopping me from compiling it and running it in an emulator or getting a provisioning profile and running it on my device?
Do jailbroken apps tend to use libraries that wont run on a vanilla copy of iOS?
I.e. Do they patch the kernel to get full control of the video controller etc..
Thanks
Daniel
I think the jailbroken apps can utilize eglibc or glibc, as when I jailbroke me iPod Touch, I remember looking over the installed packages, and remember seeing something along the lines of glibc.
In short, I think if the app is self-sufficient, you probably could package it with XCode, but if it requires some low-level APIs and libraries, you're out of luck.