IOS Multi-person sharing development Certificate

When many people develop, if you have applied for a few developer certificates and publisher certificates, Apple will not allow the creation of, the page is added to be grayed out, so it is not possible for everyone to build a development certificate, this time need to share a certificate. (In fact, generally in our certificate interface should have only one development certificate, a publishing certificate, there is no need to generate so many certificates, the certificate is usually not re-added after expiration.) ）
As follows

Is there any way to solve it? Of course it is.

method One : Revoke (we do not recommend this vicious cycle of the way, every day to be revoke, to go crazy), and then regenerate a new certificate.
This method is possible, but will cause the corresponding provisioning profiles failure, which is a small problem. But it is a waste of time to re-apply for a certificate or even describe a document, so it is not advocated.

method Two : Generate the certificate. P12 file (highly recommended)

Each of our certificates can generate a. p12 file, which is an encrypted file that, as long as it knows its password, can be used by all MAC devices so that the device does not need to be re-applied to the Apple Developer website for development and release of the certificate.

After the CER is installed locally and matches the private key of the local computer. We typically make a backup of the certificate, which is a P12 file.
This p12 file is very useful, it contains not only the information of the CER, but also the private key information, namely: P12 backup file = CER file + private key; So with this p12 there is no need to worry about certificates being lost.
Operation diagram: 1. Select the corresponding certificate, export the file

2, fill in the name, storage

3. Fill in the password

4. After completion, a. p12 file has been generated.

When used on someone else's computer, two more steps are required:
1. The. p12 file exported above
2, the configuration file corresponding to the certificate
Double-click to install the above two files, enter the corresponding password on it.

The pits encountered during the process:

Issue: 1 Publishing certificate is missing:

Workaround: Export the Publish certificate P12 file

Issue: 2 Description file Missing development certificate:

Workaround: Add the Udid of the development phone to the itunes device list to regenerate the profile

Remember: There are four of files

1) Develop the certificate description file:

2) Development Certificate:

3) Publish the certificate description file:

4) Publish the certificate:

(PS: Publisher certificate in the same vein.) ）

IOS multi-person sharing development Certificate