- Introduction
- Becoming an Apple Certified Developer
- Registering an iPhone and Other Apple Testing Devices
- Creating App IDs
- Creating a Developers Provisioning Profiles
- Creating and Publishing an iPhone App
- Controlling the Accelerometer
- Saving Images to the Camera Roll
- Understanding the Limits of Flash
- Identifying Devices to Deploy an Ad Hoc App
- Creating an Ad Hoc Distribution Profile
- Packaging an Ad Hoc App
- Packaging an App for the iTunes App Store
- Using iTunes Connect to Publish an App
- Using Screen Orientation in an App
- Using Geolocation in an App
- Using Multitouch in an App
Registering an iPhone and Other Apple Testing Devices
The hardest part of developing apps for the iPhone is not the code you develop, but ensuring you have all of your i’s and t’s dotted and crossed per Apple’s rigorous registration process. One small step in the wrong direction and your App will not compile or install correctly. It is worth taking your time to go through the setup process (New!). After you have your P12 Certificates you will need to register your test iPhone with Apple. You can register up to 100 devices per year. The developer account ID, registered device and P12 certificates are needed for all apps your want to sell in the iTunes App Store. You can register iPhone’s, iPod Touches and iPads.
Find your iPhone’s Unique Identifier
- Connect your test iPhone/iPod Touch to your computer.
- Open iTunes, and then select your device from the list to view the Summary tab information.
Click the Serial Number next to your device.
The number changes to an Identifier (UDID) number, which is. about 40 alpha-numeric characters long.
- Copy the UDID number.
- Open your Web browser, and then go to the Devices page on the iPhone Developer site:
- Click the Add Devices button.
- Paste in the UDID number and then enter a name for your device.
- Suggestion: you may want to choose something like “iPhone Development” or “iPod Touch Gen 3 Development.”