can we use developer provisioning profile to upload (.ipa) to testflight?

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hariszaman picture hariszaman · Mar 16, 2012 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

I wanted to know that with the provisioning profile of the of iphone developer i was able to generate the (.ipa) for uploading to testflightapp. But it gives me an error in the testflight that "it is invalid (.ipa)" Is that because of the fact the i am using the developer profile and not distribution profile?

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fbernardo picture fbernardo · Mar 16, 2012

You must use your distribution profile! Also, make sure your ipa has the file embedded.mobileprovision.

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