I am about to publish an app. I just got the invitation to the Apple Developer program. I have read the documentation, and I understand that the first thing is to create the iOS App IDs. Clever. Then, I have to add a production certificate, but it doesn't allow me. In the App Store and Ad Hoc option it appears (Maximum number of certificates generated)
I can't understand what the flow would be to be able to publish it. The certificates that are already added, if I download them, I download a .cer file, but the one I require, as I understand it, is the .p12 Then, I am supposed to create a provisioning profile, that is installed with the certificate that I should create and upload to apple developer, right?
I would appreciate it if you could guide me. Greetings.
Basically you can have up to 2 certificates to sign code. With those certificates you can create/sign provisioning profiles.
Provisioning profiles can be development (to test on your phone), adhoc (to distribute to your beta testers), or app store (to upload to the store).
To register an app on the Developer site, you need to create an App ID and assign your Bundle ID to it. Then create the provisioning profile (whatever type you want) and that connects the certificate, the app id and the provisioning profile.