With every Mattermost mobile app release, we publish the iOS unsigned ipa in in the GitHub Releases page, this guide describes the steps needed to modify and sign the app, so it can be distributed and installed on iOS devices.
$ xcode-select --install
Usage: sign-ios <unsigned ipa file>
[-a|--app provisioning]
[-n|--notification provisioning]
[-s|--share provisioning]
[-c|--certificate certificateName]
[-g|--app-group-id appGroupId]
[-d|--display-name displayName]
outputIpa
Usage: sign-ios -h|--help
Options:
-a, --app provisioning Provisioning profile for the main application.
-a xxx.mobileprovision
-n, --notification provisioning Provisioning profile for the notification extension.
-n xxx.mobileprovision
-s, --share provisioning Provisioning profile for the share extension.
-s xxx.mobileprovision
-d, --display-name displayName (Optional) Specify new application display name.
By default "Mattermost" is used.
Warning: will apply for all nested apps and extensions.
-g, --app-group-id appGroupId Specify the app group identifier to use (AppGroupId).
Warning: will apply for all nested apps and extensions.
-v, --verbose Verbose output.
-h, --help Display help message.
Now that all requisites are met, it’s time to sign the Mattermost app for iOS. Most of the options of the signing tool are mandatory
and you should be using your own provisioning profiles
, certificate
, also you could change the app display name
.
sign-ios
script is executable.$ ls -la
total 81472
drwxr-xr-x 7 user staff 224 Oct 11 10:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 user staff 256 Oct 11 10:49 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user staff 75261811 Oct 2 12:44 Mattermost-unsigned.ipa
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user staff 10746 Oct 2 10:30 app.mobileprovision
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user staff 9963 Oct 2 10:30 noti.mobileprovision
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user staff 10763 Oct 2 10:30 share.mobileprovision
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user staff 38581 Oct 11 10:54 sign-ios
$ ./sign-ios Mattermost-unsigned.ipa -c "Apple Distribution: XXXXXX. (XXXXXXXXXX)" -a app.mobileprovision -n noti.mobileprovision -s share.mobileprovision -g group.com.mattermost -d "My App Display Name" MyApp-signed.ipa
Once the code sign is complete you should have a signed IPA in the working directory with the name MyApp-signed.ipa.
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