how to make my first iPhone build

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

How do I make my first iPhone build? I can’t find any documentation to tell me how to do this with Corona or in Corona Project Manager.

I’ve have installed the Apple SDK and Xcode but not used it. Do I need to learn how to make builds with the Apple SDK or is it possible to avoid the SDK and make builds directly from Corona.

I’m looking to start with builds on my iPhone for development use not iStore distribution at this stage.

Please help or send me a link. I am looking at this from first principles, like where do I start?

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#2

you will build using corona sdk. With Corona SDK up and your game is open and running, go up to file, i believe, at the top left of your computer and select build. Make sure you build for iOS. You do need to have your developer provisional with apple first.

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#3

Hi Dominic.wood,

You might find the corona guide Handy. It is long and can be a little confusing at first. Just read through it carefully and fully, you unfortunately cannot skip to the “Building your app using Corona” section unless you have done the first part of that process.
http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/building-devices-iphoneipad

It seems to be well documented that you need to be a part of the Apple Developer program, this requires you to pay their yearly fee to join their program. As far as I know there is no work around this aspect of the setup.

Furthermore the long part of the process is directly related to apple and as teex84 suggested you need to have a Provisional file that is used for building apps. To get this provisional file you must be an Apple developer, you will find the details of this in the link.

So in other words yes you can make builds directly using the Corona SDK and bypassing Xcode, however it requires a setup first which can be found using the link above. This process is required for both development and app store titles.

Hope that helps

Cheers

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#4

You might find the corona guide Handy.Apple developer document guides you through that process from the beginning.In order to submit the application to the App store, you must have a version of XCode that is the same or newer than the version of the OS on your phone.Then only you will able to build first iphone.

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#5

Thanks for the advice, I found this link from Google

http://developer.anscamobile.com/demo/DeviceBuildGuide.pdf

I couldn’t find a link from the Corona site, Corona Team is there a list of documents available ?

I am a paid subscriber…

Thanks

Dominic [import]uid: 3093 topic_id: 9346 reply_id: 34346[/import]

#6

I think you are looking for a specific section of the site which is not the easiest to find at first glance.

Here’s a direct link to the spot i think you are referring too.

http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/corona-20-tools-guide

If that does not work for you try these steps on their main website.

  1. On the AnscaMobile website Select the link “Resources” on the top navigation bar
  2. Then select the Sub Group “Getting Started with Corona”
  3. Notice the menu on the left hand side
  4. You will want to look below the expanded menu “Getting started with corona” and actually select the next option called “Working with Corona”.

The sub sections in the expanded menu of Working with Corona contain all the steps necessary info for both getting your apple developers files and building for ipad/iphone/android etc.

I think that may be what you are looking for as documents. The thing is that the Working with Corona section is not immediately available from the main resources page as far as I know.

It took me some time to find that section and read it fully. I tried skimming the section at first to pick out what was relevant to me, but i found reading the whole thing in detail is actually the key to figuring out the process for both testing developer builds and actual app store builds which are pretty close to the same thing.

As you’ll find written a few places on this site, most of the process to get testing builds is related to getting setup with Apple.

Hopefully this helps.

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