For anyone who’s been through creating a distribution build, Ad Hoc or for the App Store, you know all to well it’s no walk in the park. After going through this a few times, I began writing notes to myself, which eventually become a rather lengthy checklist.
I thought this same information might be helpful for others, so I consolidated all the notes into one document.
There are a few caveats:
- The list is not necessarily the shortest path to create a distribution.
- A few redundant steps are listed, mostly done as a sanity check to ensure nothing was missed.
- This list will be helpful primarily to those who are about to adventure upon their first deployment.
Download: iPhone Distribution Build Cheatsheet
This list was written with Pages on a Mac and printed to a PDF file. If anyone has a suggestion on how to embed the document into this post, please let me know.
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I was looking for something like this about three weeks ago. :)
I do have one suggestion. I found out after my app was released that anyone who had a previous firmware (earlier than 2.2.1) couldn’t use my app. I now believe this was because I built the app for 2.2.1. But I just built it for that version because I didn’t know any better… my app runs fine on the older APIs, So now I’m waiting for the update, so some folks can run my app.
Overall, nice work!
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Nice work
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Hey John – I missed this first time around! awesome job (&blog ;) passed it on to our iphone devs…
I’d recommend incorporating the data either as a google doc (enable duplicate option) and/or a slideshare presentation (good for outreaching to a wider audience) thanks again.
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Good call on the Google doc idea. It’s now on my list of projects..thanks for the suggestion!
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Thanks a TON!
I will definitely be using this as I great my beta 2 build tonight.
Great work and great site!
Keith
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Thanks a lot, I’m sure this will come in handy when I’ll be a few steps ahead
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You can use something like a slideshare.net or scribd.com widget to embed the document into your post.
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Excellent document, I’ll be using this.
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YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!!
Thank you so much for this! Very very easy and useful!
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Thank you! I am a Java developers straying into Objective-C land and was having a horrid time with XCode. Thanks for saving some precious late night minutes :)
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Dhiraj Reply:
March 31st, 2011 at 12:46 am
Nice Work. It helped me a lot.
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