Resigning an iOS provisioning profile

Question

My client has an iOS app with In-app purchase, Game-kit and Push notifications enabled, it is currently on the app store. I would like to resign the application using an in-house enterprise distribution certificate, to test internally, but still be able to test services tied to the original provisioning profile. Is this possible?

Answer 1

I ended up doing this, which is a combination of :-

• Very tricky question about iPhone/iPad resigned builds behaviors

and

• Re-sign IPA (iPhone)

1) Create Entitlements plist, prevent issues with the Keychain etc

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>application-identifier</key>
    <string>GBA9L2EABG.com.your.bundle.id.MyApp</string>
    <key>get-task-allow</key>
    <false/>
</dict>

2) Unzip the IPA

unzip Application.ipa

3) Remove the old code signature

rm -r "Payload/Application.app/_CodeSignature" "Payload/Application.app/CodeResources" 2> /dev/null | true

4) Replace embedded mobile provisioning profile

cp "MyEnterprise.mobileprovision" "Payload/Application.app/embedded.mobileprovision"

5) Resign

/usr/bin/codesign -f -s "iPhone Distribution: Certificate Name" --resource-rules "Payload/Application.app/ResourceRules.plist" --entitlements Entitlements.plist "Payload/Application.app"

6) Re-package

zip -qr "Application.resigned.ipa" Payload