CODAPPS: Testing and releasing your app for iPhones

You have received an email inviting you to join an Apple Developer program : If you don’t find this email, check your spam folder !

Open this email, click on the link :

On the page that opens, choose "I need to register as an Apple Developer"

Then you arrive on a screen that asks you to use your Apple id:

Then you need to agree on the license:

You should be redirected to this page, which is the place where you manage the certificates of your apps for iPhones.

Congratulations, that’s already a big step!

Click on 'Certificates, Identities and Profiles'

Click on Certificates → All then click on the + sign, to add a new certificate for your app :

You should arrive on this screen, stay on it:

In the Finder on your Mac, open the Applications folder (), and inside it, open the "Utilities" folder:

In the "Utilities" folder, open the Keychain access:

 
In the window that opens, select in the menu "Keychain access → Certificate Assistant → Request a Certificate from a Certificate Authority":

In the small window that opens:

I suggest you create a folder somewhere on your computer called "Apple certificates", where you will save the file.

Now, let’s go back to the website of the Apple Dev Center, where we can continue where we left !

Upload the file "CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest" that you just saved on your disk:

This upload is the step that creates your certificate. Congratulations! That’s also a big step you just accomplished!

Now download the certificate to your disk, in the same folder. It should be called "ios_development.cer":

Find your file "ios_development.cer" where you saved it. Double click on it. This will open the Keychain access:

This opens a window asking for a password. Put "emlyon1000":

Then on the next screen you are asked again for a password.

You should use the password of your Mac computer (the one you use to login when the computer starts) :

You are invited to save a file on your disk. This is a file with "p12", save it in the same folder where you saved your other files for this certificate.

We need the UDID of your phone, the one where you will install and test your app.

The UDID is the unique identifier of your iPhone. You can find it by plugging your phone to iTunes. A very simple tutorial explains it here : http://whatsmyudid.com/

Once you have your UDID, write it to me here: http://goo.gl/forms/mmotEWvRYs

And now wait just a couple of days… I need to collect all UDID from students before I create “Provisioning Profiles” (yes, this process is long and horrible, but we are NEARLY there!).

I’ll send you an email when you can resume this lesson, at the step just below: "Downloading a provisioning profile"

Go to “Provisioning Profiles” and download the most recent one:

Now, open NetBeans, right click on the name of your project, and select “Properties” (last item at the bottom).

Please check the screenshot below and the numbered steps, and read the indications for each of them: