What is the purpose of a provisioning profile and why is it needed when developing an iPhone application? If I don't have a provisioning profile, what happens?
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Development Provisioning Profile
Apple cares about security and as you know it is not possible to install any application on a real iOS device. Apple has several legal ways to do it:
- When you need to test/debug an app on a real device the
Development Provisioning Profileallows you to do it - When you publish an app you send a
Distribution Provisioning Profile[About] and Apple after review reassign it by they own key
Development Provisioning Profile is stored on device and contains:
- Application ID - application which are going to run
- List of Development certificates - who can debug the app
- List of devices - which devices can run this app
Xcode by default take cares about it
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