What steps are necessary to get an App into the AppStore?

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What steps are necessary to get an App into the AppStore?

Can someone please list the steps needed to get a project setup for the AppStore. Lets assume the following

I do not have any certificates, provisioning profiles, distribution profiles, app id (whatever they are), etc.
I have an iPhone and an iPad

In addition, please specify 1. what I would need to do if I created a second App 2. If one or more of my devices were swapped with AppleCare (or if I added new devices)

+6 A:

Check the Apple Documentation first:

Make sure your app meets their guidelines and follow the steps they provide.

App Store Steps

This is directly from apple so this is how it should be done.

Matt 2010-10-08 18:30:50

+1 A:

This flowchart is a good place to start

http://cubiclemuses.com/cm/articles/2008/11/22/iphone-development-flowchart/

Lou Franco 2010-10-08 18:36:21

Thank you for the site but I really need more help with generating a certificate for development/distribution and app id's and mobile provisioning profiles.

Defender Of The Code 2010-10-08 18:40:56

Did you pay the $99 and become an approved Apple Developer? You need that in order to do distribution (even to your own device). There are many guides (just google it), but they won't work if you are not approved.

Lou Franco 2010-10-08 18:54:18

I have a valid developer account. I'm the Program Admin (i'm just new to this and need a little help)

Defender Of The Code 2010-10-08 18:58:52

Let us know what part you can't do http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/iphone_development/128-Managing_Devices_and_Digital_Identities/devices_and_identities.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007959-CH4-SW2

Lou Franco 2010-10-08 19:25:44

+1 A:

You need to carefully read Apple's iOS Development Guide and the iOS Developer Program Standard Program User Guide in the dev center's Provisioning Portal, then the iTunes Connect Developer Guide. Skipping careful reading of these documents can be deadly.

Answer to your 3rd question, part 2:

If you exchange your registered device for a new one (repair, upgrade, etc.), you will have to add the new device's UDID in the portal, get new provisioning profiles, and drop those new provision files on Xcode. Don't go over 100 devices total though, or you will be stuck and not able to use your new (repair, exchange, etc.) device for development.

hotpaw2 2010-10-08 18:42:11

I think you mean new provisioning profiles; you only need a new certificate once a year (when it expires).

Josh Hinman 2010-10-08 19:41:09

@Josh Hinman : You are correct. So I edited my answer.

hotpaw2 2010-10-08 20:02:18

I removed all certs, and mobile provisioning profiles and I created new certificates, a new App ID, and mobile provisioning profile. I added the certificates to my login keychain (my own, Apple WWDR) and I added the newly created mobile provisioning profiles and I still get the same response.

Defender Of The Code 2010-10-10 06:00:51

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