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Manual provisioning for Xamarin.iOS

Once Xamarin.iOS has been successfully installed, the next step in iOS development is to provision your iOS device. This guide explores using manual provisioning to set up development certificates and profiles.

The instructions on this page are relevant for developers who have paid access to the Apple Developer Program. If you have a free account, please take a look at the Free provisioning guide for more information about on-device testing.

Create a development certificate

The first step in setting up a development device is to create a signing certificate. A signing certificate consists of two things:

• A Development Certificate
• A private key

Development certificates and associated keys are critical for an iOS developer: they establish your identity with Apple and associate you with a given device and profile for development, akin to putting your digital signature on your applications. Apple checks for certificates to control access to the devices you are allowed to deploy.

Development teams, certificates, and profiles can be managed by accessing the Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles (login required) section of Apple’s Member Center. Apple requires you to have a signing identity to build your code for device or simulator.

It is important to note that you can only have two iOS Development certificates at any one time. If you need to create any more, you will need to revoke an existing one. Any machine using a revoked certificate will not be able to sign their app.

Before starting the manual provisioning process, you should ensure that you have an Apple developer account added in Visual Studio, as described in the Apple Account Management guide. Once you have added your Apple developer account, do the following to generate a signing certificate:

Go to Apple developer accounts window in Visual Studio.

1. Mac: Visual Studio > Preferences > Apple Developer Account
2. Windows: Tools > Options > Xamarin > Apple Accounts

Select a team and click View Details…

Click Create Certificate and select Apple Development or iOS Development. If you have the correct permissions a new signing identity will appear after a few seconds.

Understanding certificate key pairs

The Developer Profile contains certificates, their associated keys, and any provisioning profiles associated with the account. There are actually two versions of a Developer Profile — one is on the Developer Portal, and the other lives on a local Mac. The difference between the two is the type of keys they contain: the Profile on the Portal houses all the public keys associated with your certificates, while the copy on your local Mac contains all the private keys. For the certificates to be valid, the key pairs must match.

Losing the certificate and associated keys can be incredibly disruptive, as it will require revoking existing certificates and re-provisioning any associated devices, including those registered for ad-hoc deployment. After successfully setting up Development Certificates, export a backup copy and store them in a safe place. For more information on how to do this, refer to the Exporting and Importing Certificates and Profiles section of the Maintaining Certificates guide in Apple’s docs.

Provision an iOS device for development

Now that you’ve established your identity with Apple and have a development certificate, you must set up a provisioning profile and the required entities so it is possible to deploy an app to an Apple device. The device must be running a version of iOS that is supported by Xcode — it may be necessary to update the device, Xcode or both.

Add a device

When creating a provisioning profile for development, we must state which devices can run the application. To enable this, up to 100 devices per calendar year can be added to our Developer Portal, and from here we can select the devices to be added to a particular provisioning profile. Follow the steps below on your Mac to add a device to the Developer Portal

Connect the device to be provisioned to the Mac with its supplied USB cable.

Open Xcode, and go to Window > Devices and Simulators.

Under the Devices tab, select the device from the menu on the left side.

Highlight the Identifier string and copy it to the clipboard:

In a web browser, go to the Devices section in the developer portal and click the + button:

Set the correct Platform and provide a name for the new device. Paste the identifier copied earlier into the Device ID field:

Click Continue.

Review the information, then click Register.

Repeat the above steps for any iOS device that will be used to test or debug a Xamarin.iOS application.

Create a development provisioning profile

After adding the device to the developer portal, it is necessary to create a provisioning profile and add the device to it.

Before creating a provisioning profile, an App ID must be made. An App ID is a reverse-DNS style string that uniquely identifies an application. The steps below will demonstrate how to create a Wildcard App ID, which can be used to build and install most applications. Explicit App IDs only allow the installation of one application (with the matching bundle ID), and are generally used for certain iOS features such as Apple Pay and HealthKit. For information on creating Explicit App IDs, refer to the Working with Capabilities guide.

New wildcard App ID

Go to the Identifiers section in the developer portal and click the + button.

Select App IDs and click Continue.

Provide a Description. Then set Bundle ID to Wildcard and enter an ID in the format com.[DomainName].* :

Click Continue.

Review the information, then click Register.

New provisioning profile

Once the App ID has been created, the provisioning profile can be created. This provisioning profile contains information on what app (or apps, if it’s a wildcard app ID) this profile relates to, who can use the profile (depending on what developer certificates are added), and what devices can install the app.

To manually create a provisioning profile for development, do the following:

Go to the Profiles section in the developer portal and click the + button.

Under Development, select iOS App Development and click Continue.

Select the App ID to use from the dropdown menu then click Continue.

Select the Certificate(s) to include in the provisioning profile then click Continue.

Select all the devices that the app will be installed on then click Continue.

Provide Provisioning Profile Name then click Generate.

You can optionally click Download on the next page to download the provisioning profile onto the Mac.

Download provisioning profiles in Visual Studio

After creating a new provisioning profile in the Apple Developer Portal, use Visual Studio to download it so it is available for bundle signing in your app.

Go to Apple developer accounts window in Visual Studio.

1. Mac: Visual Studio > Preferences > Apple Developer Account
2. Windows: Tools > Options > Xamarin > Apple Accounts

Select the team and click View Details…

Verify that the new profile appears in the Provisioning Profiles list. You may need to restart Visual Studio to refresh the list.

Click Download All Profiles.

The new provisioning profile will now be available in Visual Studio and ready to use.

Deploy to a device

At this point provisioning should be complete, and the app is ready to be deployed to the device. To do this, follow these steps:

Connect your device to the Mac.

Open Info.plist and make sure the Bundle Identifier matches the App ID created earlier (unless the App ID is a wildcard).

In the Signing section, select Manual Provisioning as the Scheme:

Click Bundle Signing Options.

Make sure the build configuration is set to Debug|iPhone. Open both the Signing Identity and Provisioning Profile dropdown menus to verify that the correct certificates and provisioning profiles are listed:

Select a specific identity and profile to use, or leave it as Automatic. When set to Automatic, Visual Studio for Mac will select the identity and profile based on the Bundle Identifier in Info.plist.

Click OK.

Click Run to deploy the app to your device.

Connect your device to the Mac build host.

Open Info.plist and make sure the Bundle Identifier matches the App ID created earlier (unless the App ID is a wildcard).

In the Solution Explorer, right-click the iOS project name, select Properties and navigate to the iOS Bundle Signing tab.

Make sure the build configuration is set to Debug|iPhone. Under Bundle Signing, select Manual Provisioning as the Scheme:

Open both the Signing Identity and Provisioning Profile dropdown menus to verify that the correct certificates and provisioning profiles are listed.

Select a specific identity and profile to use, or leave it as Automatic. When set to Automatic, Visual Studio will select the identity and profile based on the Bundle Identifier in Info.plist.

Click Run to deploy the app to your device.

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Unable to add device in Apple Developer Program

I am unable to add a new device in the Certificates, Identifiers, and Profiles section of the Apple Developer portal.

I have two developer accounts, one personal account and one account for a company. The account for the company, I am set as a ‘member’ for the team. This is the account that I am unable to add a new device for. (I am also not able to download the Distribution certificate, which I believe is a related issue that I need resolved too).

I have researched the other similar questions on SO, but neither of them applied to my scenario.

Here is a picture showing the + button disabled (greyed out)

2 Answers 2

From Apple documentation:

Team members can’t register devices and create development provisioning profiles using their developer account.

Ask from someone who has Team admin or Team agent privileges to add you.

I figured it out. Team Members are unable to add a new device via the Developer Portal. However, they are allowed to add a new device to the provisioning file via XCode. I was working with Xamarin and didn’t know that I needed to go back to XCode in order to add a new device to the provisioning file.

If you’re working in Xamarin and experience this problem, you need to create a ‘dummy app’ in XCode with the same info as your Xamarin app. Then select your team and it should generate the correct provisioning file for you. After that, build and run your app on your device, then a pop up window should display telling you that the device is not in the provisioning file, then asks if you would like to add it. A simple click of ‘Yes’ will automatically add the device to the provisioning file which is then reflected on the Developer Account.

Hope that helps someone else! I spent many hours trying to figure this out.

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How to Add iOS Devices to Your Developer Profile

This is the second of our four step process towards deploying an iOS application to a device. In our first segment we walked through the full process of creating iOS developer certificates in Visual Studio. Our next step is registering any iOS devices we need onto our iOS developer profile. This registration plus our third step — creating an App ID — are prerequisites to the final step of building provisioning profiles. Once we have provisioning profiles we can actually test our our apps on real devices.

Grab your iOS devices and let’s get started.

Step 1: Get Your Device’s UDID

To register your iOS device with Apple you’ll need to know its UDID (Unique Device Identifier). Unfortunately there is currently no way to get your device’s UDID in Visual Studio, but you can easily get the UDID in iTunes.

Connect your iOS device to your machine, open iTunes, and click on your device.

From there, click on the «Serial Number» text to reveal the device’s UDID.

Unfortunately you can not copy this number to the clipboard, therefore you’ll have to reference it when registering your device on Apple’s developer portal, which we’ll cover next.

Step 2: Register the Device on Apple’s Developer Portal

Now that we have the device’s identifier, we have to register it with Apple. On Apple’s iOS developer site, click on the «Certificates, Identifiers, & Profiles» link.

Next, click on «Devices» under iOS Apps.

At the top of the list of iOS devices, click the plus icon to add a new device.

At the following screen, give the device a name and provide the UDID we found in iTunes earlier.

Finally, click the register button to finish the device registration process.

That’s it! We now have our devices setup and associated with our iOS developer account. We’ll need these devices available when we setup provisioning profiles for testing our applications. We’ll tackle that in the last of our four step series. In our next step, we’ll look at the final requirement before creating provisioning profiles — registering an App Id.

TJ VanToll

TJ VanToll is a frontend developer, author, and a former principal developer advocate for Progress.

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