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mohammad anouti
mohammad anouti

Reputation: 171

How to generate an IPA for IOS project

I build a Xamarin Forms application and I am using VMware to run my ios project. I generated an APK for android successfully, but I don't know how to generate IPA for the IOS project. Any idea?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1429

Answers (2)

Srusti Thakkar
Srusti Thakkar

Reputation: 1911

Using below steps you can generate IPA for ios:

  1. Connect your project with Mac using VMWare.
  2. Select Release mode instead of Debug:

Select Release

  1. Right click on your iOS Project and go to properties.
  2. Then go to iOS Bundle Signing and select appropriate Provisional Profile and Certificate.
  3. Then move to next option i.e.iOS IPA Options and Mark checkbox true name with Build iTunes Package Archive(IPA).
  4. Add Package name as per your Certificate.
  5. Now Just clean and Build your Project for iPhone mode

Build for iPhone.

You can find your IPA in your release/iPhone folder.

Upvotes: 2

Mojtaba Tajik
Mojtaba Tajik

Reputation: 1733

iOS executable file format is ipa, not APK.

Here is documentation about building iOS ipa using xamarin.

You need MacOs to compile Mac based binary files :

  • Use a Mac as your main development machine and run a Windows virtual machine with Visual Studio installed. using VM software such as Parallels or VMWare .

  • Use a Mac just as a build host. In this scenario it would be connected to the same network as a Windows machine with the necessary tools installed.

Upvotes: 2

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