I have an iOS app that i need to send to a collegue (in another country) in the .ipa form to then be published in our Intune company portal. I already had some problems because at first 2 attempts the generated ipa archive expired within 6 days due to the the wrong provisioning profile. Now the app is signed with "Apple Development" profile/certificate and seems to last one year and looks pretty good to me on the devices I have for testing (they are alredy profiled then).
The question i have now is: will be the app able to run on any iOS devices with "Apple Development" signing or to be installed I need the "Apple Distribution" certificate even if the app it is not going to be published to the Apple Store?
Edit: I have those two Certificate to be used:
P.S. to complicate things the app is compiled with Visual Studio Code (.NET MAUI), where some automatisms may be in xCode...nothing exists with VS.
I have an iOS app that i need to send to a collegue (in another country) in the .ipa form to then be published in our Intune company portal. I already had some problems because at first 2 attempts the generated ipa archive expired within 6 days due to the the wrong provisioning profile. Now the app is signed with "Apple Development" profile/certificate and seems to last one year and looks pretty good to me on the devices I have for testing (they are alredy profiled then).
The question i have now is: will be the app able to run on any iOS devices with "Apple Development" signing or to be installed I need the "Apple Distribution" certificate even if the app it is not going to be published to the Apple Store?
Edit: I have those two Certificate to be used:
P.S. to complicate things the app is compiled with Visual Studio Code (.NET MAUI), where some automatisms may be in xCode...nothing exists with VS.
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Reset to default 0You cannot distribute an iOS app directly to other users, outside of passing the thru the App Store, unless:
- You have built this as an Ad Hoc Distribution, explicitly listing the target devices of all intended users; or
- You have passed the app through TestFlight, and all intended users obtain the app that way as testers; or
- You are using Enterprise distribution, as part of the Apple Developer Enterprise program.