iOS deployment question

[Graham Samuel]

Care to write it up, William? 

AFAICS, coding in LiveCode is a trouble-free activity compared to deployment on iOS (or indeed on LiveCode Server, Android etc). Arcane rules, certificates, permissions… even the vocabulary seems to have been re-invented to confuse the honest programmer. Of course, that’s just my view, and I am not young. Still, it seems to me that one of the biggest challenges for LiveCode is to make the whole process, from having the idea for the app all the way to successfully publishing it, a journey with no u-turns, dead ends, or deep frustration at lack of progress.

Just my two eurocents

Graham

> On 23 Mar 2016, at 04:34, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
> 
> Never mind…… Got it to work.
> Bill
> 
>> On Mar 22, 2016, at 8:17 PM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I can see, after Googling around a bit, that getting the certificates signed and set up correctly is quite complicated, with lots of ways of going wrong. With out-dated certificates, old provisioning profiles, etc.
>> 
>> I wonder if there is a way to make this more robust and transparent. Like some app that will go through the settings, certificates, and provisioning profiles and give a diagnostic. Or perhaps, could the Livecode diagnostics give more information to help figure out what’s going wrong? This seems like a real need to me.
>> 
>> Maybe it’s too much to hope for. It takes me a day or two of hair-pulling to get this set up after being away from making iOS apps for awhile. 
>> 
>> Best,
>> Bill
>> 
>>> On Mar 22, 2016, at 7:29 PM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I’m getting an error when I try to build an iOS standalone. It is:
>>> “Could not find a valid identity to use with the selected iOS profile.”
>>> 
>>> Where should I look? I’ve downloaded a certificate and set the bundle  of the provisioning profile to org.earthednet.wWaterDetective, and it shows up in the Profile setting, and I set the internal App ID to org.earthednet.wWaterDetective.
>>> 
>>> I’m in LC 8 DP 16, using Xcode 6.2.1. 
>>> 
>>> Very frustrating. It would be really wonderful if, sometime, there was a list of possible complaints the standalone builder would make, with possible solutions, or at least some diagnostic things one could do.
>>> 
>>> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> William Prothero, Ph.D.
>>> University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus
>>> prothero at earthednet.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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