How to build ipa file with flutter

Question

I've upgraded my flutter to version 1.26.0-1.0.pre

Now I'm trying to build ipa file with command

flutter build ipa --export-options-plist=ExportOptions.plist

File ExportOptions.plist contains such content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>compileBitcode</key>
    <true/>
    <key>destination</key>
    <string>export</string>
    <key>method</key>
    <string>ad-hoc</string>
    <key>signingStyle</key>
    <string>automatic</string>
    <key>stripSwiftSymbols</key>
    <true/>
    <key>teamID</key>
    <string>/*This is my team ID*/</string>
    <key>thinning</key>
    <string>&lt;none&gt;</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Output for build command is:

Running pod install...                                           1,691ms
Running Xcode build...
 └─Compiling, linking and signing...                        17.3s
Xcode archive done.                                         33.7s
Built /Users/alexeyzhulin/Projects/flutter/shopping-list/build/ios/archive/Runner.xcarchive.
Building IPA...                                                  1,977ms
Encountered error while building IPA:
error: exportArchive: No profiles for 'ru.alexeyzhulin.shoppingList' were found

What kind of profile I have to add to my plist file?

I'm using automatic signing as you could see in my plist content and if I run

flutter xcodebuild -h

I could see

provisioningProfiles : Dictionary

        For manual signing only. Specify the provisioning profile to use for each executable in your app. Keys in this dictionary are the bundle identifiers of executables; values are the provisioning profile name or UUID to use.

How to build ipa file use command line flutter tool?

Answer 1

My recommendation is to manually generate the IPA with XCode, at least the first time. This will generate a .plist file named ExportOptions.plist in the same directory where your .ipa file is created.

Then, you can use the ExportOptions.plist file for your next deliveries by running this command :

flutter build ipa --export-options-plist=absolute/path/to/ExportOptions.plist

Everything is explained here : https://flutter.dev/docs/deployment/ios#create-a-build-archive-with-xcode