The React Native App Store Publishing Guide

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The React Native App Store Publishing Guide

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• Generating the Distribution Certificate
• Generating the Provisioning Profile
• Generating the standalone .ipa for iOS

CI

Slides & Videos

• CICD for React Native — Juha Linnanen
• react-native-ci/docs/ReactFinland-RN-CICD.pdf

Circle CI

Circle CI + Fastlane

• ChainReactApp2019/.circleci/config.yml

Turtle

• Build Standalone Expo .apk and .ipa with Turtle CLI

References

• The Ultimate Apple App Store Connect Guide [2020 Update]
• App Store Connect
• Manual Archive IPA Bash Script
• multiple ways to provide your password to the xcrun command
• 2FA enabled, generate an app password
• More Downloads for Apple Developers
• download the ipa, and use xcrun altool to upload to itunes connect
• Revised manual uploading steps (#5911)
• Code Signing Guide
• Turtle CLI usage example (CircleCI & Travis CI)
• .p12 files are used to publish app on the Apple App Store

Delete Previous Certificates

(a) delete local files

> rm ios_distribution.*

(b) delete provisioning profile

1. Profiles
   • Select tipoff-distribution
   • Click Remove
2. Certificates
   • Select Happii LLC
   • Click Revoke
3. open -a 'Keychain Access.app'
   • Under Keychains, Select login
   • Under Category, Select My Certificates
   • Right-Click, then Select, Delete "iPhone Distribution: Happii LLC (PRA85XDG9L)"

Generate CSR

1. open -a 'Keychain Access.app'
   • Under Keychains, Select login
   • Under Category, Select My Certificates
   • Select Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Request a Certificate From a Certificate Authority...
   • In the textbox labled User Email Address, Enter wil.moore@wilmoore.com
   • In the textbox labled Common Name, Enter Wil Moore III
   • Select, Saved to disk
   • Click Continue
   • Save As ios_distribution.csr

Create a New Certificate (requires CSR)

1. Create a New Certificate
   • Select iOS Distribution (App Store and Ad Hoc)
   • Click Continue
2. Upload a Certificate Signing Request
   • Click Choose File
   • Select ios_distribution.csr
   • Click Continue
3. Download Your Certificate
   • Click Download
   • Save as ... ios_distribution.cer
4. Import Your Certificate
   • > security add-certificates ios_distribution.cer
5. Convert your Certificate to password protected .p12 file
   • open -a 'Keychain Access.app'
   • Under Keychains, Select login
   • Under Category, Select My Certificates
   • Locate the certificate iPhone Distribution: Happii LLC (RPA85XDG9L)
   • Click the arrow to expand and show both the certificate and private key.
   • Select both the certificate and private key.
   • Select Export 2 items...
   • Save As as ios_distribution.p12
   • When prompted, enter an export password to protect the exported certificate

Register a New Provisioning Profile

1. Register a New Provisioning Profile
   • Under the Distribution heading, Select App Store
   • Click Continue
2. Generate a Provisioning Profile
   • Under App ID:, Select TipOff (RPA85XDG9L.com.HappiiClub.TipOff)
   • Click Continue
3. Select Certificates
   • Select Happii LLC (iOS Distribution) Apr 07, 2021
   • Click Continue
4. Review, Name and Generate.
   • In the text box labeled, Provision Profile Name, Enter ios_distribution
   • Click Generate
   • Click Download
   • Save as ... ios_distribution.mobileprovision

Turtle Build

environment

export CERTIFICATE_ROOT='/Volumes/GoogleDrive/My Drive/company/tipoff/codesign'

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

export RELEASE_CHANNEL=production
export EXPO_USERNAME=wm3
export EXPO_PASSWORD="*****"
export EXPO_APPLE_TEAM_ID=RPA85XDG9L
export EXPO_IOS_DIST_P12_PASSWORD="*****"

export IOS_SDK_VERSION=37.0.0

turtle build command

@turtle build:ios \
  --release-channel production \
  --team-id "$$EXPO_APPLE_TEAM_ID" \
  --provisioning-profile-path "$$CERTIFICATE_ROOT/ios_distribution.mobileprovision" \
  --dist-p12-path "$$CERTIFICATE_ROOT/ios_distribution.p12" \
  --output ios_distribution.ipa