iPhone Ad Hoc Distribution Caveats and Useful Links

One of the things I learn after developing a couple of iPhone (and iPad) applications is that sometimes it can take more  time to make it to app store or installing the app to the clients device than actually developing the applications.

Ad hoc distribution is one the things I really don’t like at all.

These are the caveats  :

-Download the distribution provisioning profile again from the Provisioning Portal, and remove the old one (from the organizer) before installing the new one

-Don’t forget to add the Entitlements.plist file with the key get-task-allow and the value false. (also add it tho the target build settings as Code Signing Entitlements key )

- If the client uses Windows make sure use .ipa file for sending the .app

- It is not iTunesArtwork.png but only iTunesArtwork

The links that explain the process:

• http://johnehartzog.com/2009/04/iphone-app-ad-hoc-gotchas/
• http://www.innerfence.com/howto/install-iphone-application-ad-hoc-distribution
• http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/3156-problem-iphone-ad-hoc-distribution.html