Sideloading notification with paid dev account

Shura1oplot commented 1 month ago

The description mentioned that while having account with enrolled Apple Developer Program it is possible to have notifications in a sideloaded app.

Sideloading ... Sideloadly (Free, No notifications) Notifications require $99/year Apple Developer Program

I have an Apple Developer Program enrolled, but don't have notifications. Are there any changes to be made in Sideloadly to have notifications?

SoCuul commented 1 month ago

There's a long guide you have to go through haha. I'll post a guide when I'm free

Shura1oplot commented 1 month ago

Thank you! Much appreciated. It'll help me a lot.

SoCuul commented 1 month ago

Register app id

Register an identifier with the "App IDs" tag identifier at https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/identifiers/add/bundleId
Enter a description of your choice
Set the bundle id to "explicit", with a value of your choice. For example: com.socuul.youtube
Enable the "Push Notifications" capability, along with any other ones you would like
Click the continue button, then register

Generate Certificate Signing Request

Open the Keychain Access app on your mac.
Under the Keychain Access entry on your menu bar, select Certificate Assistant > Request a Certificate from a Certificate Authority
Enter an email address and a name of your choice (the contents does not matter)
Select saved to disk
Save this file in a folder of your choice

Create distribution certificate

Create a new "Apple Distribution" certificate under the Software header at https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/certificates/add
Upload the Certificate Signing Request file you generated in the previous section
Click the Download button, and save the .cer file in a folder of your choice
Open the downloaded file, and make sure you can find it inside of your keychain.
Right click on the certificate and select Export
Make sure the file format is set to .p12, and save the file in a folder of your choice

Create Ad Hoc profile

Create a new "Ad Hoc" profile under the Distribution header at https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/profiles/add
Select the app id you created earlier
Make sure to select the no option for offline support
Select the distribution certificate you created in the previous section
Select which devices you will install the app on
Provide a name to easily identify the profiler later, then click the Generate button.
Click the Download button, and save the .mobileprovision file in a folder of your choice

Install tools

Make sure you have an installation of homebrew, otherwise install it with /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Install OpenSSL & zsign
```
$ brew install openssl@1.1
```

$ git clone https://github.com/zhlynn/zsign $ cd zsign $ chmod +x INSTALL.sh $ ./INSTALL.sh


## Export certificate information
26.  Run the following commands, replacing <yourcert.p12> with the location of your saved p12 certificate file.
```sh
$ openssl pkcs12 -in yourcert.p12 -nocerts -nodes -legacy -out ios_dist.key
$ openssl pkcs12 -in yourcert.p12 -clcerts -nokeys -legacy -out ios_dist.pem

Sign app

Run the following command and replace the following values.
- → Your distribution certificate file path
- → Your ad hoc profile path
- → The bundle id of your chosen app (eg: com.hammerandchisel.discord)
- → The name to display on the home screen (eg: Discord)
- → The name to save the signed ipa under
- → The path to the unsigned ipa you would like to sign

$ ./zsign -z 5 -k ios_dist.key -c <dist.cer> -m <adhoc.mobileprovision> -b <bundle.id> -n <app.name> -o <signed.ipa> <unsigned.ipa>

Install app

Finally, install the signed .ipa to your device through your preferred method. For example:
- Sending .ipa to device through AirDrop
- Dragging .ipa onto connected device in finder
- Dragging .ipa onto connected device in Apple Configurator
- Using a command-line tool such as https://libimobiledevice.org/

SoCuul commented 1 month ago

Basically, you won't be using sideloadly at all. After it's signed you can just send it to your phone by any means (airdrop, finder over usb, even safari)

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