I want to create an iphone app for personal use.
Can I just put it on my phone and use it or do I have to go through the iphone store process to get it on my phone?
Thanks.
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As long as you have a valid developer certificate to sign the app and you have a development provisioning profile and your device is registered as a test device. For that you need to be registered as an iPhone Developer Program member.
In other words, you have to pay Apple $99 to be able to put your own app on your own phone.
Franci Penov
2010-07-01 19:35:51
Welcome to the world of scams. Please observe the master.
samoz
2010-07-01 19:39:15
(little asterisk) per year
Felipe Alsacreations
2010-07-01 20:07:24
Good point samoz, this was all a master plan by Apple to earn $99 every time a developer wanted to write an iPhone app and install it on their own phone but not try and sell it in the app store. And this brilliant play has clearly worked as they now are the #2 USA company in market cap. Cause there are billions of developers doing this.
bpapa
2010-07-01 20:55:22
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Yes, you can run your own apps on your phone. You need a paid iPhone developer account though.
Eiko
2010-07-01 19:35:55
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Purchase a developer account for $99 from Apple. Create a developer provisioning file and build to your device. The annoyance will be the provisioning file is good for a limited time, requiring you to update it periodically and rebuild.
MarkPowell
2010-07-01 19:37:38
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To run an app on an un-jailbroken iDevice, it needs to be signed. Registered developers get personal signing keys (and also have to register the device) which lets them test their apps. They also can do ad-hoc distribution, meaning compiling and signing an app so that other people can use it without being registered. This is limited in the number of users who can use it though.
Enterprise developers can sign apps for internal distribution, sorta like unlimited ad-hoc, but that program is expensive and unnecessary for what most people do.
paxswill
2010-07-01 19:38:47
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As pointed out by others here, you can sign up as a developer to temporarily install apps on your device for testing purposes, but you would constantly need to renew your phone's installed provisioning profile to keep using it over time.
The only way to permanently put your own application on an un-jailbroken phone is to publish it to the app-store and download it through iTunes. Of course, Apple would need to accept the app so you would need to face the same regulations as other apps sold via iTunes, and your app would be public to everyone.
sinsro
2010-07-02 07:00:42