{"id":102,"date":"2010-02-10T00:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T05:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-02-10T00:55:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T05:55:18","slug":"multiple-developers-one-iphone-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer.casgrain.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Multiple developers, one iPhone app"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am working on an iPhone project with seven other iPhone developers, and we all have individual development certficates (the project did not require a group certificate, and we all had ours already).<\/p>\n

\nSince one has to sign code to run outside the simulator, we all edited the Info.plist’s Bundle Identifier to match our certificates (mine was com.casgrain<\/code>, as you can guess).<\/p>\n

\nThis leads to a permanently-modified file in your local copy of the source repository, one that you have to ensure you do not commit. It’s not very neat, and it is error-prone. And if you want to genuinely modifiy the plist, you must discard your changes, do the modification, commit and re-do your changes. Not pleasant.<\/p>\n

\nI wanted to use plist pre-processing to solve this issue, since it will replace environemnt variables in the plist before using it, for instance to sign code.<\/p>\n

\nThe goal is to replace this:<\/p>\n

\n\tCFBundleIdentifier<\/key>\n\tcom.myCompany.${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier}<\/string>\n<\/pre>\n
with this:<\/p>\n
\n\tCFBundleIdentifier<\/key>\n\t${DEVELOPER_DOMAIN}.${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier}<\/string>\n<\/pre>\n
Pre-processing supports environment variables, but not any environment variable. If you define a variable in ~\/.profile<\/code> (if you use bash or a bash-compatible shell), this does not work.
\nYou have to define the variable in ~\/.MacOSX\/environment.plist<\/code>, a special plist that is read at login time.<\/p>\n
\nTo define this variable, follow these three simple tasks in Terminal. You only need to do them once.<\/p>\n
    \n
  1. Create the `\/MacOSX folder if it does not exist. If it is already present, this is harmless\n
    \n\tmkdir ~\/.MacOSX\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Add the environment variable\n
    \n\tdefaults write ~\/.MacOSX\/environment DEVELOPER_DOMAIN -string \"com.yourdomain\"\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Ensure that the plist is human-readable and not compressed XML, in case you want to edit it later with a text editor\n
    \n\tplutil -convert xml1 ~\/.MacOSX\/environment.plist\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    You will need to log out and back in for those changes to take effect.<\/em><\/p>\n
    \nNow, do the repkacement above in your Info.plist, substituting “${DEVELOPER_DOMAIN}<\/code>” for “com.myCompany<\/code>” or whatever the reverse-domain was for your project.<\/p>\n
    \nWith this modification, you should now be able to build for the device without changing the plist every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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