Distributing Your iPhone Application to Testers
I spent a good 2 hours over the weekend trying to work out how to get my Adhoc iPhone application to install on to a mates PC.
On the mac it’s easy, send the .app file and the provisioning profile file, which the receiver then drags into the applications folder of iTunes, sync your iphone and you should have the application on your testers iphone. Well on the PC it’s a different story, the .app file decompresses and all the PC user can see is loads of folder containing the scripts and assets which make the application run.
So how did I make it work on the PC?
Get your developer to drag the .app file and provisioning profile file into their own iTunes and sync, if it’s all worked then get them to locate the applications .ipa file which iTunes produced when they dragged it into iTunes.
Get them to send the PC user the .ipa file and the provisioning profile file. The PC user can then drag both these into their iTunes and wOOt they have a working iPhone application after they have competed the sync.
Hopefully this post gets out to the WWW so other developers aren’t pulling their hair out for hours like I was.