iOS account renewal and certificate renewal process

When the developer account member is about to expire, Apple will send a mail to the developer account for the registration email, prompting the user account to expire, and renew the fee in a timely manner, usually prompting the user to renew it one months in advance. The following starts the introduction of the renewal process;

1. Login to the Developer account, the page will have an account expiration yellow hint, click Renew your membership, will jump to the payment page, the personal developer account is 688rmb/years;

2. Select Continue;

3. Purchase details, select Continue, then click Buy

4. Use Visa or MasterCard credit card to pay, fill out the invoice information is OK, need paper invoice selection paper invoice; After the purchase, Apple will send you an e-mail to tell you the success of the renewal. Then the next step is to update the certificate process.

Renewal of the certificate after the process, first of all to describe the location of the certificate, the role, so that in the production of the mind has a spectrum, the whole process of grasping will be accurate;

1, developer certificate (divided into the development and release of two, the type of iOS Development,ios distribution), this is the most basic, whether it is the real machine debugging, or upload to AppStore are required, is a base certificate, used to prove their developer identity;

2, AppID, this is the independent identity of each application, in the settings can be configured to configure the app's permissions, such as whether to use the Passbook,gamecenter, and the more common push service, if the push service is selected, Then you can create a push certificate mentioned in 3rd below, so, in all and push related configuration, the first thing to do is to first open the support push service AppID;

3, push the certificate (divided into two types of development and release, the type is APNs development Ios,apns distribution iOS), the certificate in the AppID configuration to create a build, and the developer certificate, installed on the development computer;

4, Provisioning Profiles, this thing is very apple features a thing, I generally called the PP file, the file will be AppID, developer certificate, hardware device binding to one, in the developer Center is configured to add to Xcode, You can also directly connect to the developer center in Xcode, the real machine debugging needs to add the udid of the real machine in the PP file, is the real machine debugging and must rack necessary treasures;

Usually our production process is generally based on the above sequence, first use the developer account to login to the developer Center, create a developer certificate, AppID, in the AppID to open the push service, in the Open Push service option below to create a push certificate (server-side push certificate see below), Then in the PP file to bind all the certificate ID, add debugging real machine, etc.;

Start applying for a certificate below

1. Test certificates that are nearing expiration or have expired. Publish the certificate. Provision profile file and other related to the AppID certificate and PP file revoke;

2. Create a developer certificate;

Select continue, and then ask to upload the CSR file, here to explain the CSR file, full name certificate Signing requst, Apple to know who is requesting a certificate, need to sign the requestor;

CSR file Generation method, open keychain;

Select storage to disk;

Then upload the CSR file, click Generate, will generate a developer certificate, and then download, save to the specified folder, double-click the installation certificate;

2. Similarly generate a publishing certificate, the same process to create the development of the push certificate and publish the push certificate; Select Development Push Certificate Type

then choose AppID;

Upload the CSR file and click Generate to generate a push certificate for the development environment;

Similarly generate a push certificate for the publishing environment;

3. After generating the publish and push certificate, you can check whether the push service is activated;

After activating, create provision profile file, referred to as PP file;

Fill in the name, continue is OK; Create publishing environment pp file; Download double-click to install;

Here we are.

iOS account renewal and certificate renewal process