How do I produce an iOS Release Build that my client can sign on their end?

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My scenario

I wrote an iOS app for a client. The project is almost over and now it\'s time for them to put it in the App Store. I\'ve been sending t

Answer 1

I believe I have found a way to do exactly what you want, I haven't done extensive testing or tried to upload to the app store but from the testing I have done it seems to be good. The resign and the addition of my provisioning profile is working as I can install it on my devices defined in the AdHoc profile with no manual profile installation needed. Second test was I got an iPad and an iPhone version of an app with the same bundle ID from xCode, at first I could not have both in iTunes but after the resign and bundle ID change I was able to have both installed. I also tried changing the app name and that worked as well, it showed on the device and in iTunes with the new name. Below is my script, it's designed to resign a specific app for me, so the profile and bundleID are hardcoded. I flip between an iPhone and iPad version of the app so I added that as a parameter to the script. But you should be able to take the principles I have here and refine them for yourself.

The guts of this builds upon articles like Further adventures in resigning for iOS from Dan's Dev Diary and very similar to Erica Sadun's App Signer listed above. The main addition I made was the editing of the Info.plist prior to resigning.

#!/bin/sh

DestFile="Signed_$1"
SigningCertName="YOUR DISTROBUTION CERT NAME HERE FROM KEYCHAIN"
AppInternalName="APP NAME FROM INSIDE PAYLOAD FOLDER.app"

echo
echo "Going to take the app $1 and resign it as $DestFile"
echo

if [ "$2" = "iphone" ] ; then
        echo "Using iPhone Profile"
        echo
        BundleID="com.YOURCOMPANY"
        ProvProfile="/Users/YOURNAME/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/PROVISIONINGPROFILE.mobileprovision"
elif [ "$2" = "ipad" ] ; then
        echo "Using iPad Profile"
        echo
        BundleID="com.YOURCOMPANY.ipad"
        ProvProfile="/Users/YOURNAME/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/PROVISIONINGPROFILE_iPad.mobileprovision"
else
        echo "You must enter either iphone or ipad as the second parameter to choose the profile to sign with."
        echo
        exit 1
fi

rm -f Resigned.ipa
unzip -q $1 -d temparea
cd temparea/Payload
echo "*** Original Signing ***"
echo "************************"
codesign -d -vv $AppInternalName/
cp "$ProvProfile" ./$AppInternalName/embedded.mobileprovision
export EMBEDDED_PROFILE_NAME=embedded.mobileprovision
export CODESIGN_ALLOCATE=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/codesign_allocate

#Update the Info.plist with the new Bundle ID
sed 's/>ORIGINAL BUNDLEID HERE'$BundleID'./$AppInternalName/Info.plist.new
mv -f ./$AppInternalName/Info.plist.new ./$AppInternalName/Info.plist

# this will do a rename of the app if needed
# sed 's/>ORIGINAL APP NAMENEW APP NAME./$AppInternalName/Info.plist.new
# mv -f ./$AppInternalName/Info.plist.new ./$AppInternalName/Info.plist

# echo "Hit enter to proceed with signing."
# read TMP
codesign -f -vv -s "$SigningCertName" -i $BundleID $AppInternalName

echo
echo "*** New Signing ***"
echo "*******************"
codesign -d -vv $AppInternalName/
cd ..
zip -r -q ../Resigned.zip .
cd ..
rm -R temparea
mv Resigned.zip $DestFile
echo
echo "New IPA Created, $DestFile"