Hello, I am working on my first app and now it is ready to build on an IPhone for testing. I figured out that I need a provisioning profile to do so. However, I found places online saying that you did not necessarily need a paid apple developer account to get one and that you can just use your free apple account as long as you are not deploying to the app store. Though when I tried this it seemed like it would only work if I wrote the code within XCode itself and not if I wrote it within Corona (as I did). Is this correct and I just need to pay for a developer account or is there some other way I am missing? Thank you.
You don’t need a paid developer account in order to test on iOS devices.
I don’t remember the exact sequence, but I think you can just select “Open in Xcode Simulator option” when building the app for the first time. And allow Xcode to generate a provisioning profile for the app.
I think an update to the building for internal testing page would be a good addition to the documentation. Many people think they need to buy a developer account just to test on a local IOS device because getting the provisioning profiles is not easy.
You don’t need a paid developer account in order to test on iOS devices.
I don’t remember the exact sequence, but I think you can just select “Open in Xcode Simulator option” when building the app for the first time. And allow Xcode to generate a provisioning profile for the app.
I think an update to the building for internal testing page would be a good addition to the documentation. Many people think they need to buy a developer account just to test on a local IOS device because getting the provisioning profiles is not easy.