I can actually install a few apps without provisioning

Question

Yesterday I was playing with the three20 library. I hit the command+enter to build and run the app on my simulator, to my surprise it installed the app on my device iPod Touch 4th Gen. I really dont know how that happened, I tried doing it with few of my other project and unfortunately it did not work.

Today, I downloaded the quick contacts sample code from Apple's developer site and the same thing happened, I could install the app on my device without any provisioning. I see that for the above two projects (three20 and quick contacts) my device is listed in the active executables.

But for other projects my device isn't listed. I tried running the above two apps on other devices which failed with a message - "No provisioned iOS device found". My device isn't jailbroken, its a brand new one I bought a few days ago.

Am I missing something, because being able to install apps without going thru Apple's portal is a huge bonus and I would like to achieve the same functionality for my other apps too.

I tried attaching screenshots, but looks like I atleast need 10 points to do so and I'm new here. Sorry.

Answer 1

Have a look at the XCode Organizer; As of a few versions ago it now manages a 'Team Provisioning Profile' that works off any bundle identifier and any of your devices if they've been added to your developer account. This is not a special provisioning profile, just an automatic one it sets up for you if you tell it your iTunes Connect details.

WIth this, anything you build and run should be able to use that provisioning profile to run code on your devices.