Reputation: 237

install application in iphone device through command line

I'm using xcodebuild install -alltargets -iphoneos4.2 -activeconfiguration provisioning_profile=path_of_my_provisioningprofile code_sign_identity=identity. This command is building my app and i am getting build file (.app) also. But how to install the app in to device from command line. Please help me in this issue.

Upvotes: 22

Answers (8)

Will Pierce

Reputation: 2058

If you're writing a Flutter app, follow these instructions at flutter.dev to set up your IDE of choice (including setting up your signing key in XCode). After you have it working in an IDE, you can then build and launch the app on a connected device by these steps:

Look up your device ID by running flutter devices and copy the hex string listed in the second column.
From the source directory of your project, run: flutter -d DEVICE_ID run --release (or change --release to --debug to build and deploy the debug version).

The flutter command will handle spawning XCode to compile the app. It will not run any faster than XCode usually does (in my experience.)

Be sure to keep the device connected to your mac, whether via a USB cable, or over a shared wireless network.

Upvotes: 0

Chinya

Reputation: 51

Install following packages on MAC

brew install libimobiledevice  
brew install ideviceinstaller

After successfully installed above packages.

Use following command to install .ipa file on iOS devices:

ideviceinstaller -i <Path_to_your_ipa>

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Ded77

Reputation: 218

ipatool: https://github.com/majd/ipatool

Step 1: Search the app bundle id

 ./ipatool search testflight --limit 1

> ==> ℹ️    [Info] Searching for 'testflight' using the 'US' store front...
> ==> ℹ️    [Info] Found 1 result:
> 1. TestFlight: com.apple.TestFlight (3.1.0).

Step 2: Download the IPA

./ipatool download --bundle-identifier com.apple.TestFlight

Easy!

Upvotes: 1

Andrew Gable

Reputation: 2752

Fruitstrap is no longer maintained, for a more up to date project checkout the fork by PhoneGap called ios-deploy.

To install run: npm install -g ios-deploy

Here are some examples of how to use it:

// deploy and debug your app to a connected device
ios-deploy --debug --bundle my.app

// deploy and launch your app to a connected device, but quit the debugger after
ios-deploy --justlaunch --debug --bundle my.app

// deploy and launch your app to a connected device, quit when app crashes or exits
ios-deploy --noninteractive --debug --bundle my.app

// Upload a file to your app's Documents folder
ios-deploy --bundle_id 'bundle.id' --upload test.txt --to Documents/test.txt

Upvotes: 20

SantiagoRodriguez

Reputation: 318

Looking around found https://github.com/benvium/libimobiledevice-macosx. This is a port from libimobiledevice to MAC-OS X. Its very useful and no jailbroken is needed. :P

Upvotes: 5

Tejasvi Manmatha

Reputation: 654

Use this beautiful script : http://gamua.com/blog/2012/03/how-to-deploy-ios-apps-to-the-iphone-via-the-command-line/ - Then connect iphone device via usb to mac running this command

To launch app on command line:

instruments -w 4xxxxxxxx9 -t /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Instruments.app/Contents/PlugIns/AutomationInstrument.bundle/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate NITC -e UIASCRIPT Launch-App.js

format : instruments -w <deviceid> -t /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Instruments.app/Contents/PlugIns/AutomationInstrument.bundle/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate <applicationname> -e UIASCRIPT Launch-App.js

My Launch-App.js has only one line - var target = UIATarget.localTarget();

This must be sufficient to launch application on device using command line

Upvotes: 4