Help understanding iOS deployment

[Colin Holgate]

The LiveCode Lessons pages include some walkthroughs that show you the things you need to know. Here's the one on getting a distribution certificate:

http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4069/l/32957-how-do-i-create-a-distribution-profile-for-ios

For everything you described though, you can get by with a Developer certificate and provisioning profiles. In order to get your app working on your own devices you will need to have entered the device IDs into your account, and selected those devices when making the provisioning file.

The iOS Portal has a How To tab, that also steps you through the different stages. Go here, and log in when asked:

https://developer.apple.com/ios/manage/provisioningprofiles/index.action

If you did have 100 people who wanted the app you would need to enter all of those devices into your account in order for it to work for them. And then the provisioning file will time out after a few months.