Use fir.im to publish your mobile app

A chance to know Fir.im, the company's main product is to help developers publish iOS or Android apps easily and conveniently. Today I'll talk about how to publish your app in fir.im, and then have the UUID device download and install it directly from the Web. The advantage of this is that you don't have to silly each time you plug in the USB and use Xcode to build the app. After all, sometimes with a root line is a very troublesome thing, the most critical is a lot of team members, you can not bring the equipment to update, how clumsy things ah. So I think fir.im is doing pretty well, let's see how to publish an app.

Step one: Sign in to the Apple Developer website and add the device udid that you want to install the test app on, only the device that joined Udid can download the app via the browser. Fir.im provides a quick way to get udid and click on the link to access it (via mobile). Add the acquired Udid to the iOS devices shown.

The second step: Make a publishing certificate, the certificate is published in provisioning Profiles, the detailed release certificate step has been demonstrated again.

Select Ad Hoc on the Add page

Go to the Select App ID page:

Select Developer

Add a test device

Finally will jump to the information page, give this certificate can click Generate, download on it.

Let's go into Xcode and configure the certificate you just generated.

Click the project icon in Xcode and find the configuration settings under Info tab, with Debug and release as the default. Click +, select Duplicate the "Release configuration", to create a new thing name, we recommend the use of ad hoc distribution

Click the targets icon and under Build Settings this tab, locate the Code signing section. Set the ad hoc distribution certificate in code Signing identity to the certificate that you just imported to the corresponding test app in Xcode. Be careful not to change the certificates in debug and release.

Ensure that the bundle indentifier inside the Info tab in target has a default value that must match the provision portal input. This is important, otherwise it will go wrong in the future.
In the upper left corner of Xcode, there is a drop-down menu to the right of the Run button, select Device or Simulator, and click Edit Schema below the menu. Ensure that the value in build configuration in archive is ad hoc distribution

At this point to configure the Ad Hoc develoyment to publish the app's work is over, the following is the program compiled, click on the product archive, after the compilation is complete popup settings box, click Export Select Save for Ad hoc Develoyment will generate an. ipa file, which is the file used to publish the fir.im.

The last is to upload this generated IPA file to fir.im, click on the Publish link to go to the publishing page,

With this step, you're done, and the mobile device that needs to be tested can be installed by accessing the app's address via a browser. And fir.im also set the status of the app, can be divided into public or private state to limit the download. In short, through fir.im no longer need to test the app and use Xcode to do a device generation app.

If you encounter problems during the publishing process or post an app, you can leave a message at any time or visit the official Fir.im FAQ document. Some of the images in this blog are fir.im official pictures.

Category: iOS development

Use fir.im to publish your mobile app