How to determine at run-time if app is for development, app store or ad hoc distribution?

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Is there a way to determine programmatically if the currently running app was built and signed for development only or whether it was built for distribution? And can one determine if was build for app store or ad hoc distribution?

Is it e.g. possibly to access the code signature and get the information from there? Or are there certain files present in one of variants that don't exist in the other ones? Is part of the bundle info? Or can it be derived from the executable file?

Any hints are appreciated.

It seems that the embedded.mobileprovision file is in ASN.1 format.

signature asn.1 iphone
5 Answers

openssl asn1parse -inform DEM -in *Mobile_Provision_File* -strparse 54 is the easiest way to access the data that I've found.

EDIT:

security cms -D -i *Mobile_Provision_File* is actually easier. The openssl command leaves some garbage in the output.

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I create a gist to detect Ad Hoc build
See : https://gist.github.com/iShawnWang/d904934efded271d83b36288562df410

AdHoc detect with following 2 conditions :

1.embedded.mobileprovision contains field ProvisionedDevices (Debug and Ad Hoc Build contains this field ,Release not)

2.it is not DEBUG Build , we can use #ifdef DEBUG to decide it

NS_INLINE BOOL isAdHoc(){
    BOOL isAdHoc = NO;
    BOOL isDebug;

#ifdef DEBUG
    isDebug=YES;
#else
    isDebug=NO;
#endif

    NSData *data=[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[[NSBundle mainBundle]URLForResource:@"embedded" withExtension:@"mobileprovision"]];
    NSString *str=[[NSString alloc]initWithData:data encoding:NSISOLatin1StringEncoding];
    NSRange rangeOfDevicesUDIDs = [str rangeOfString:@"ProvisionedDevices"];

    isAdHoc = rangeOfDevicesUDIDs.location!=NSNotFound && !isDebug;
    return isAdHoc;
}
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