iOS URGENT:Adhoc Distribution of my app

[ilx.mac]

Hi there,

This is my first application. I have created it and have the source code with me. I also own an apple distribution (AD Hoc) Certificate.

I am not aware of sharing my app with friends before launching with app store.

Can some one help me on this please.

Also, how to convert my / build my source to an executable in other iphone without sending the source code to them. (some thing like, making my source as an executable file in iphone )

My friends want to have a look @ my app, using itunes. From apple developer portal i came to know about adhoc distribution. But now i am struck.


Thanks in advance!

 

[Saladinos]

The executable should be in the build/debug-iphoneos folder inside your project folder

 

[jerrywickey]

I have been trying to do the same thing. creating a provisioning profile for a friend's iPhone with that phone's 40 hex ID# and emailing him the provisioning file and the executable. But I can't find the executable.

It should be in build/debug-iphoneos or /release-iphoneos as the file *.app but that file turns out not to be a file at all but directory of mostly source code files every time I try to email it or copy it to a flash drive.

What gives? where is the file and what is its name, that I can send ad hoc?

Jerry

 

[sergio27]

For ad hoc distribution, you need to send the applicationName.app file, along with the distribution profile (*.mobileprovison). The receiver needs to drag both files into iTunes and synchronize his or her device.

The *.app shows like a file in Mac OS, but it is indeed a folder. It contains the resource files like images, sqlite files, and *.nib files. It does not contain (or should not contain), however, the source code of your app.

I found it odd, too, to be sharing the *.nib files and the other files, but I think that is the only way the ad hoc distribution works.

 

[Guiyon]

I found it odd, too, to be sharing the *.nib files and the other files, but I think that is the only way the ad hoc distribution works.

That's the case for ANY *.app. Without those NIB/XIB files you have no UI (that is assuming you used nibs).