Certificates & Provisional Files (Manual Process)

 

This Article is Called Manual Process because currently, our Ordering Builder can create all these certificates automatically.

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Creating your Bundle ID for iOS

This is important for your App to match the Apps you have in the Stores. How to create the bundle id's identifiers for your iOS apps.

1. Create New Bundle ID - click on the "+" icon that shows under Identifiers in Developer Account.

Select App IDs and click on Continue

2. Set up the name and bundle your app will show in the stores, this must match with the information you will need in the stores.

·Description: This is internal, just to identify the ID.
·BundleID: This will be shown in the stores, normally should match the one you have in the builder, it is like "com.projectname.ordering"

3. Before you save this step activate the Push Notifications & then click on continue (blue button)

4. Click on Continue

And register to finish.

After all these steps are finished you will be able to select this Bundle ID in the stores in case you want to upload the App.

How to create my iOS Distribution Certificate

Here you will learn how to create the iOS Distribution files also known as iPhone Distribution, if you don't know what I'm talking about, you're in for a treat, this can be very helpful not only for your Ordering Apps but for any App you want to get in the iOS Store.

Let us begin.
1. You need to create the new Certificate by clicking on the "+" on your top.

2. Select iOS Distribution (App Store and Ad Hoc) & click continue at the top (blue button).

3. Very Important - You need to Create a CSR to proceed with the creation of this Certificate, Please read the instructions in this link to continue: https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/devbfa00fef7
(it won't take more than 15 minutes and will help you a lot in the further process), if you got it just continue.

4. Once you've created your CSR, in this screen, you will see a "Choose File" Button, click on it and select the newest CSR file you created, after this click continue (blue button)

5. Download the Certificate that is provided and Open it in Keychain Access (tool in iOS), you can just double-click the certificate that was downloaded.

6th - When the file is opened in Keychain Access, click one time the key icon, your name will show and right-click it, export the iPhone Distribution Certificate. When you do this you have to set up a password for this certificate which will be the same that you have to put in your Ordering Builder.

That is it, now you have your iOS Distribution file which can be established in your Builder where it says "Change file .p12" under Keys Store tool.

Adhoc for testing

1. You have to Create a new Provisional File by clicking the "+" on your top.

2. Click on the option "Ad hoc" & Continue

3. Select the Bundle ID of the App you are going to assign this Adhoc file to

4. Select the certificate, be sure that all the information is matching this way you will save a lot of time instead of looking for the right documentation.

5. Select the device you are going to test, for this you have to create your UDID and create the device for testing, on this quick guide you will learn how to do this [How to get my UDID?]

6. Set up the name of the Adhoc file you are going to create, we highly recommend you to save it with the name of the app + "Adhoc" (just like the image), then you can save it.

7. Now you can download it and open use it in your Builder in the Adhoc Field

Appstore File

This would be the one that Apple needs to get it Published in the Appstore

1. Create the new Profile File

2. This time it will be the one that says "App Store"

The rest of the process is the same just without the selecting of testing devices FYI

3. Select the Bundle ID of the App you are going to assign this Adhoc file to

4. Select the certificate, be sure that all the information is matching this way you will save a lot of time instead of looking for the right documentation

5. Set up the name of the Appstore file you are creating, this time just leave it as the App name, this way you can identify it.

6. Now you can download it and open use it in your Builder in the AppStore Field

Upload files to the builder

Now we just need to upload these new files to the Ordering Builder.

Go to the "Key Store" option and select "iOS" to upload the new certificate and files that you created.

1. Upload the new Distribution Certificate.
2. Upload the Appstore file.
3. Upload the Adhoc file.

Now you can build your apps.

Certificates expired

If you try to build your app and the iOS app shows the next image, you need to create new certificates for this app.

For this, you need to create new certificates, just like we explained above.

Once you have the new Distribution Certificate you need to change this certificate to all AppStore & Adhoc files that you have created.

1. You have to select the file that you want to upload the new certificate.

And click on Edit

2. Select the new Distribution Certificate and click on "Generate" to create the new Dev or Adhoc file.

3. Once you create the new file you only need to download this file and change this on your Builder.

After you have created these files and the p.12 certificate you can set them up to test the iOS App in your Builder just by reading the QR codes or downloading the Dev Build to upload it in the Stores.