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Mundi
Mundi

Reputation: 80271

Setting up Urban Airship with multiple targets - same bundle ID possible?

We are rolling out an international project with complex server logic and two mobile clients, iOS and Android. For iOS are planning to have different targets in the same Xcode project for each country in order to be able to customize each countries app while optimizing code reuse.

For the server, we decided to have one instance for all countries in order to allow switching of users between countries.

However, one app instance on the server can only accommodate one Urban Airship instance.

So, assuming that an Urban Airship app key must have a unique bundle ID, could we use the same bundle ID for various targets to be rolled out in various countries?

If not, how would you solve this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 666

Answers (2)

Campbell_Souped
Campbell_Souped

Reputation: 881

You can only set up Urban Airship with the same bundle ID if you are toggling the inProduction flag, either in code or in a plist file.

Read more in UA's Best Practices for Testing and Submitting iOS apps

Upvotes: 1

Jake
Jake

Reputation: 13761

Having the same bundle id for every target is perfectly fine from a technical aspect within the project. However, this will not work for the app store or installing builds of the different targets on an actual device. This is because iTunesConnect and iOS consider the bundle id a unique identifier for the app. If you use the same bundle id, each target's build will essentially overwrite the previous target's build when uploading to iTunesConnect or installing on an actual device.

What this means:

You need to have different bundle id's for each target. If Urban Airship only allows a single bundle id per instance, then you cannot work around this situation without having multiple instances of Urban Airship. I would suggest having multiple instances and submitting a request to Urban Airship to support multiple applications per instance.

Upvotes: 4

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