How to transfer my Corona App to my iOS device from Corona running on Mac

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hello

I thought this would be easy to find, I searched the Forums for “how to transfer my app to iPad” and various versions of that text and nothing was found that was relevant.

Am I missing something here, I have build my App in Corona, tested it in the simulator and now all I want to do is transfer it to my USB connected iPad. I am using a Mac with my iPad connected.

I also have Corona on my Windows PC, but thought using my Mac would make this easy.

I hope I must be missing something really simple here.

Regards

Bruce.

#2

Open Xcode, press CMD+Shift+2 (or Window->Devices) find your iPad, iPhone etc and drag the .ipa generated by Corona onto it.

#3

Don’t just search the forums.  Use Google.  It will help you search the entire site.

Google’s search engine will always be infinitely superior to a sites own search engine unless that site is not externally searchable.

site: coronalabs.com _ topicword1 _ _ topicword2 _ …

Ex:  Try this search phrase:

site: coronalabs.com build for ios

Some results:

#4

When you hit the build dialog on the Mac you should have post-build options: 

O Copy to device

O Open in Xcode iOS Simulator

O Send to App Store

O Show in Finder

O Do nothing

Pick the “Copy to device” radio button and have your iPad plugged into a USB port on your computer. Once the build is complete, and if everything went well, it will copy the app to your iPad automatically and you can run it.

You can also take this opportunity to check the “Create Live Build” checkbox and once your live build is installed on your iPad, just saving your changes in your text editor will cause your iPad to update automatically!

Rob

#5

Note that if you have push-notifications and you are running the app (without going thru TestFlight or AppStore), the push-notification id will interfere with production push-notification id. You should delete the push-notification id so it is not sent to APN together with production push-notification ids.

#6

ok all, thanks for that, i did find out how to do all the pre-setting up stuff in the Apple Dev site and create all the various certificates etc. and then i did also see how to build and copy my app to the device.  thanks.

it all just seemed a lot more involved than just building and copying a file as i thought it might be.  anyway my first attempt and now i have my App on my ipad and can further refine it.

I will also be checking out the “live build” option thanks Rob.

#7

Open Xcode, press CMD+Shift+2 (or Window->Devices) find your iPad, iPhone etc and drag the .ipa generated by Corona onto it.

#8

Don’t just search the forums.  Use Google.  It will help you search the entire site.

Google’s search engine will always be infinitely superior to a sites own search engine unless that site is not externally searchable.

site: coronalabs.com _ topicword1 _ _ topicword2 _ …

Ex:  Try this search phrase:

site: coronalabs.com build for ios

Some results:

#9

When you hit the build dialog on the Mac you should have post-build options: 

O Copy to device

O Open in Xcode iOS Simulator

O Send to App Store

O Show in Finder

O Do nothing

Pick the “Copy to device” radio button and have your iPad plugged into a USB port on your computer. Once the build is complete, and if everything went well, it will copy the app to your iPad automatically and you can run it.

You can also take this opportunity to check the “Create Live Build” checkbox and once your live build is installed on your iPad, just saving your changes in your text editor will cause your iPad to update automatically!

Rob

#10

Note that if you have push-notifications and you are running the app (without going thru TestFlight or AppStore), the push-notification id will interfere with production push-notification id. You should delete the push-notification id so it is not sent to APN together with production push-notification ids.

#11

ok all, thanks for that, i did find out how to do all the pre-setting up stuff in the Apple Dev site and create all the various certificates etc. and then i did also see how to build and copy my app to the device.  thanks.

it all just seemed a lot more involved than just building and copying a file as i thought it might be.  anyway my first attempt and now i have my App on my ipad and can further refine it.

I will also be checking out the “live build” option thanks Rob.