Do you need a provisioning profile for each app?

[cpcdev]

Hi,
I already have one app in the store, but I hired programmers to do the first. Since then, I've been learning iPhone development and I'm now ready to release my second app. I already have my own apple developer account ($99) that was used for my first app. My question is.. do I need to create a new provisioning profile for the second app or can I use the existing one that was created for the first one?

[RLScott]

That depends on how you set up the app ID for the first development provisioning profile. If you used an explicit app ID, such as

com.mycompany.thisapp

Then you can only use it for that one app. But if you used the wildcard option,

com.mycompany.*

Then the same provisioning profile will work for any of your apps. For most apps, the wildcard ID is suitable, unless your app uses Push Notification Service.

[cpcdev]

Originally Posted by RLScott

That depends on how you set up the app ID for the first development provisioning profile. If you used an explicit app ID, such as

com.mycompany.thisapp

Then you can only use it for that one app. But if you used the wildcard option,

com.mycompany.*

Then the same provisioning profile will work for any of your apps. For most apps, the wildcard ID is suitable, unless your app uses Push Notification Service.

Thanks for your response. Yes, my first app uses push notifications so I noticed it is setup like you mentioned: com.mycompany.thisapp

So when I create another one I should use the wildcard option? Will I be able to use this provisioning profile for future apps I use also?

Thanks again for your help

[H4CK3R]

I just have a single one made by xcode itself for me which is ?????.* so i can use it with any app id.


But you can do
?????.com.*
com.* (app id)

????.com.company*
com.company.* (app id)

?????.com.company.app
com.company.app (app id)

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by RLScott

That depends on how you set up the app ID for the first development provisioning profile. If you used an explicit app ID, such as

com.mycompany.thisapp

Then you can only use it for that one app. But if you used the wildcard option,

com.mycompany.*

Then the same provisioning profile will work for any of your apps. For most apps, the wildcard ID is suitable, unless your app uses Push Notification Service.

You can certainly use wildcard profiles for development, but can you create a release profile using wildcards? I was under the impression that release required a fully qualified profile.