Quiz on an actual device...

[alan]

My quiz application "questions and answers" were all geared to some
dear friends of mine: the Auer family.

So when I heard that we were all seating together for the IU vs
Michigan football game yesterday, I had to get the app running on my
iPhone. (just would not quite be right to lug my laptop into the
stands to run it on the simulator!)

This was just enough peer pressure to get the code to finally download
to my phone! The app was a hit. I just wish the game would have ended
differently. (but that is Hoosier football...) OMG! have you seen that
screen/scoreboard at the south end of the field? I want to know who is
the manufacturer and what the specs are? Unbelievable... I have never
been to an NFL game and I suppose these devices might be standard
operation procedure, But the screen was so sharp, huge, bright, and
fun to watch! (someone suggested we should use as an outdoor movie
theater!)

Back the the subject at hand...

I'm not sure actually what was my initial problem with downloading to
a iSO device, but when I googled my build error, someone suggested the
error was a result in not initially downloading the WorldWide
Developer Relations Certification Authority cert. This persons post
listed some solutions while indicating that the WWDR might need to be
installed before your csr are submitted to Apple and or when the certs
are actually installed.
(http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2220082)

After reading that guy's post, and noticing that his steps differed
from the current portal steps. I decided do a little of both: to to
delete all my provisioning elements, this time make sure I first
downloaded and installed the WWDR cert and then follow the steps in
the provisioning document.

These provisioning steps seemed to have changed over time. Therefore
the BigNerdRanch suggests following the Apple's Provisioning portal.
After going through the steps twice, indeed I found the step to
install the WWDR, it was there all along, I just missed it the first
time.

http://developer.apple.com/ios/manage/overview/index.action

This portal has lots of information is all sorts of media.
Collapsible HTML that opens up to all sorts of steps, Videos that step
you through as well. After going through it twice it is all there and
and does work.

I am ashamed to say I printed the 17 pages of steps on my second
attempt just to make sure I did everything correctly. (checklist) But
after I was done I realized that this was not actually necessary.

But I did want to at least share with you what I did to get it to work
and what I ended up with. I guess it should be noted that I wanted to
do the Ad Hoc provisioning which to my understanding by-passes the App
store Distribution channel.


Certs:

I ended up with three additional certs installed on my Mac all from
Apples Provisioning site:

WWDR:
iPhone Developer: Cert tied to my developer account with Apple (alan
schertz)
IPhone Distribution: Cert also tied to my developer account with Apple

I also installed two Mobileprovisioning files into Xcode from the
provisioning site:

My_Ad_Hoc_Distribution_Profile.mobileprovision
My_Development_Provisioning_Profile.mobileprovision

There are numerous steps outlined in the howto guides, documenting
what edits need to be made in the Target/Build/Properties of your app
in xcode, too many to mention, at least it seem that way.

But if any one wants any help I'm game to give it a try. Just reply
to this post.

I realize that you IU folks might be under a development Team where
I'm a standalone guy. But the majority of the steps I think will be
the same.