My iOS app has a + in its name. Bundle is invalid due to this. Need help resolving

Question

I did find a couple of very similar or identical threads here but they seemed to end before full resolution.

My app runs fine on my device with no build error. I am trying to submit app for approval and I get the following error, "This bundle is invalid. The executable name, as reported by CFBundleExecutable in the info.plist file may not contain any of these characters ..... +". So I opened my info.plist file and changed the info.plist file executable name from the macro ${EXECUTABLE_NAME} to the name of my app without the +. I did a new archive but then get an error saying the "codesign failed with exit code 1".

In another thread I read to just change targets name removing the + from there and leaving the info.plist file with the macro for the executable name, restarting Xcode and then archiving again. That allowed me to archive but I received the same error in iTunes Connect.

I have been working on this all day and don't find the solution. Can anyone please point me in the right direction? Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

You have to change ${PRODUCT_NAME} in Build Settings. And you have to set name for display at Bundle Display Name in Info.plist.

See here for more details: Bundle Name, Executable Name, Product Name...anything else?

Answer 2

There are a few different ways to make this work but this seems like the easiest/fastest

• First change the "Product Name", so that it does not contain any special characters - how to change Product Name
• Next, I changed the "Bundle display name" (CFBundleDisplayName) and "Bundle name" (CFBundleName) in my Info.plist to be hardcoded to have the '+' in it rather than referencing the ${PRODUCT_NAME} variable.
• If you have already created app and distribution profile in iTunesConnect then you should also change the "Bundle identifier" in Info.plist - hardcode it to whatever you entered in iTunesConnect rather than xxx.${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier} variable (iTunesConnect bundle identifier is shown in an error message if you try to build an archive before changing it)
• Finally, build your app and Apple should not complain about the character when you validate. Your app should still show up with the '+' sign on the homescreen when you run on a device because of the hardcoded bundle keys.

Clean your simulator and device

• If building for iOS Simulator won't work after that ("error: failed to attach to process ID 0" message) then go to "IOS Simulator" menu bar and click "Reset Content and Settings…"
• If running on your device doesn't work after that then delete the app from your iPhone/iPad and run it again

I left the Executable name as-is in the Info.plist because the ${EXECUTABLE_NAME} variable it references by default is comprised of the ${PRODUCT_NAME} and a couple of other variables that I did not want to mess with.

thanks to Nathan Welch who's answer was basis for this tutorial