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Dev Juice: Help me set up a multiperson dev team

Dear Dev Juice,

We have a 3 man dev team with the iOS developer program (as a small company plan) and we are getting ready to move up to Xcode 4 once Lion is out to the public and the have a stable sdk.

What is the best way to set all of our systems so we can each build for adhoc distribution instead of just one of us being able to?

Thanks, Brandon

Dear Brandon,

You can easily build for Ad Hoc on more than one machine at a time. Just export your developer provisions and certificates from Xcode's organizer.

Click Export Developer Profile, enter a password that you will remember and verify that password. Save the file to a convenient location such as the desktop.

You will generally have to enter an administrator password during the process to allow Xcode to access your local keychain. Once created, you can transfer this profile file to another Macintosh system and import it through the same Xcode organizer screen. You will be prompted for the password.

Once imported, just do the same build-and-archive, sign-with-the-ad-hoc-provision building of IPAs on the remote installations that you would do at your home system.

Happy Developing!



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Foozie

Ive seen sooo many developer hour$ burned on ad hoc provisioning ... on larger corporate projects with lots of developers and stakeholders who need different levels of builds its a nightmare. Ive been using TestflightApp for a smaller project for the last 6 months and Its been a nonissue. You can have multiple developers and build recipients placed in multiple target groups. It sends the builds out by email for you and you can see who recieved, opened, and installed the build on a dashboard practically in realtime. Havent used it for Enterprise though. Would love to see Apple buy it and integrate.

July 09 2011 at 10:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Christopher Forsythe

Also, make sure that you have your code in a version control system of some kind. The more popular ones now are mercurial and git, with bazaar right behind that. svn is a tad simpler from a pure theory perspective, but it has downsides that the others I mentioned aim to correct.

Chris

July 08 2011 at 7:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Josh Jones

The person asking this question doesn't seem like a developer.

July 08 2011 at 5:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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