How do I sign my iOS app? | Aquro Help Center

Signing your iOS app is done via a few different steps, with three primary parts required.

AppID

First you need to have an AppID registered at apple. This is done by adding your app to the Apple Developer portal. This AppID will later be used to generate your signing certificate and your provisioning profile. For more information about generating a AppID follow these instructions.

Signing Certificate

Secondly you need to have a signing certificate. This certificate is generated by Apple and have to be added to the Aquro platform. The signing certificate proves the identify of the developer who has developed the application.

If you already have a Apple Signing Certificate, upload the Certificate to Aquro App Studio by following the steps in this article.

If you wish to generate a new signing certificate you will do this by first generating a certificate request then completing the certificate request to add the new certificate to Aquro App studio. Follow the instructions in these articles:

When you have added the certificate to Aquro App Studio you may select the certificate you wish to sign your application with by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to RELEASE MANAGEMENT > NEW BUILD
  2. Click on the IOS tab
  3. Click on the SIGNING tab
  4. Locate the certificate and select it

If the certificate is locked, you need to unlock the certificate before you may sign your application. This is done by:

  1. Navigate to RELEASE MANAGEMENT > NEW BUILD
  2. Click on the IOS tab
  3. Click on the SIGNING tab
  4. Enter your certificate password under Certificate Password and click on UNLOCK to unlock your certificate

For your safety we strongly recommend you to lock the key after you have completed the building process and keep it locked until next time you need to build the app.

Provisioning profile

A provisioning profile is a file that will be embedded into your application when the application is built and signed. A provisioning profile contains a few different settings which describes how your app may be distributed.

A provisioning profile is connected to the certificate used to sign your application. Therefore make sure that the provisioning profile you use when you are building your application is configured to the same certificate as you sign your application with. If not your build will fail.

For more information about provisioning profiles, read this article.

When you have added and selected a signing certificate and a provisioning profile on your app you are ready to build your iOS version of your app.