App Ids

[Doug Davies]

Tonite I asked a question concerning app ids.  I did a little more research and posted this to the Apple forums.

My provisioning profile uses a wildcard app id and then I specify a fully qualified bundle id for each app.  The documentation says this.

 

If you are creating a suite of applications that will share the same Keychain access (e.g. sharing passwords between applications) or have no Keychain Access requirements, you can create a single App ID for your entire application suite utilizing a trailing asterisk as a wild-card character. The wild-card character must be the last character in the App ID string. Example App IDs for this situation could be: R2T24EVAEE.com.domainname.* or R2T24EVAEE.* 

In these wild-card situations, you’ll simply replace the asterisk with whatever string you wish in the CF Bundle Identifier field in Xcode.

Which to me says the it's ok to use a wildcard in the provisioning profile because the asterisks portion will be replace with your bundle id.

 

I have 4 games in the app store that all use the same wildcarded provisioning profile but each has a unique bundle identifier.  So perhaps this does work, but I have also had confusion as to whether I had done this properly or not.

 

If I'm understanding correctly, it's ok to use a wildcarded app id and only have 1 provisioning profile for ALL my apps.  Or am I still misunderstanding?

doug 

[Ronak Patel]

Yes I think you are right. We have few application which use same App ID using wild card. This save time in beta testing as we can use same certificate for different application.

Sent from my iPhone

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