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I have published an app through the testflight website to allow my colleagues to test, and as more and more of them opens the initial email and find time to go through the registration process, testers are trickling in on my testflight team.
However, the process to add them to the test seems a bit convoluted, so I thought I'd verify, and ask, if I'm doing it right, or if I have missed something obvious.
At the moment the whole procedure looks like this:
I noticed that if I do not update the version, it will "silently" replace the existing build, and reuse the list of testers that have already been informed, so if I just check all the new testers and complete, it'll only inform the new ones.
However, it seems a bit of a work to have to keep downloading and mucking about with the provisioning profile files.
Did I miss something obvious? Is there a way for me to make any part of this easier?
For instance, I noticed that I can create a provisioning profile inside the Xcode organizer, however that dialog box doesn't list any certificates so I can't complete that dialog. If this is a key element, leave a short answer to that effect and I'll instead repost a new question about that.
This question is just: Is the above procedure correct?
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TestFlight apps submitted to iTunesConnect need to be signed with an App Store Distribution Profile. TestFlight no longer accepts apps submitted with an Ad Hoc profile. So the situation is now unambiguous: you need a production certificate for the app, and an App Store distribution provisioning profile.
Log in to https://itunesconnect.apple.com In your app, click on TestFlight in the top menu. You should see the build uploaded. Be sure to note down your build number for adding to a beta group. By default you will be able to test your app yourself, simply by installing the TestFlight app on your phone.
To add Internal testers: Navigate back to your app in My Apps, select the TestFlight tab and click Internal Testing on the left-hand side; Now click the (+) sign next to the header Internal Testers; Check the box next to any eligible users who have not already been invited and click Add.
You don't need a provisioning profile to run on the simulator.
No need to rebuild the .ipa
Hope that helps.
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Yes, you need to go thru that manual process to add UDIDs to your profile. There's no way around that, unfortunately.
After you create a new provision you can use xcode to "sync" the new provisions file if you would like. Open it up, go to the Organizer, select "Provisioning Profiles" on the left and press refresh. I honestly do it manually, it's not that much work after all.
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