Monday, July 16, 2018

Convert iOS app bundle (.app file) to ipa file

When xcode builds a project, it generates an app bundle as output. In order to install the app bundle to iOS device, the app bundle file needs to be converted to a ipa file.

The following steps can be used to convert app bundle to ipa file
1. Create a folder named as "Payload"
2. drag and drop the app bundle file (myapp.app file) into Payload folder. You can get the .app file from xcode derived folder
3. Compress the payload folder to a zip file
4. Rename the zip file to ipa file


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