How to build an iOS app with GitHub Actions [2023]

[@MrWobling]

Many thanks for this - made an overwhelming task seem much more approachable.

[@CoNgL3]

Really nice video. Good luck with your youtube endeavors. 👍

[@SPFExpert]

Thx!

[@DiegoOliveira-yt8bm]

That was so helpful, to me, thank you. Thanks to your video I could set up the certs and passwords needed I managed to set up a a Github workflow, running on mac, that tuns a Qt Creator build with signing and upload the .dmg file as an artifact Super thanks

[@SPFExpert]

That’s so great to hear! Exactly the reason I like to share these videos.

[@maonguyen1619]

Love it. Thanks for sharing!

[@SoadHayek]

Thank you that was super helpful for me , I'm facing issue for the provisioning profiles I have multiple profiles , I'm facing issue in the app groups with the automatic singing , any recommendations ?

[@SoadHayek]

/Users/runner/../app.xcodeproj: error: No profiles for 'com.app.NotificationService' were found: Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Development provisioning profiles matching 'com.app.NotificationService'. Automatic signing is disabled and unable to generate a profile. To enable automatic signing, pass -allowProvisioningUpdates to xcodebuild. (in target 'NotificationService' from project 'app')

[@SPFExpert]

I do! I ran into the same issue and here are detailed steps and links to my code that will handle multiple provisioning profiles. www.andrewhoog.com/post/how-to-build-react-native-ios-app-with-github-actions-2023/#31-bundling-multiple-mobile-provisioning-profiles

[@clementcardonnel3219]

Thank you, your tutorial has helped me a lot. 👍

[@luizuk4]

Awesome! Thanks Andrew!

[@cosmic_pixel]

This was super helpful 🔥

[@SPFExpert]

Yay, thx!

[@HumbleHustle101]

Nice video. Can you also make a video on pods with github action?

[@tarumalik]

hey Andrew, I get this error, with no additional information. where should i dig into? Process completed with exit code 65.

[@batinayunsel]

same here

[@adamdahan9506]

Xcode cloud simplifies this process greatly. Wondering what you think about GH actions vs Xcode cloud?

[@aBakaDev]

cause it's too expensive

[@coren99]

This video is super helpful, I managed to get the app archived and exported in the command line of my mac no issues. When I setup in github actions though at the export step I get an error that there is no Distribution certificate. I know the cert installed in the secrets is a Development certificate, but that seems to be all I needed on my mac. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

[@pabloalvarez2886]

Nice video! I’m having a problem tho. I’m getting exit code 66, that the directory does not contain an Xcode project. How can I manipulate that path to fix that?

[@SPFExpert]

Is the repo public? I’d be great to have a look at that, or perhaps some more of the error log. If it’s not public, maybe just post the error log and file list in a gist and share the link here?

[@pabloalvarez2886]

The repo is not public, but I already fixed that issue! Thanks. I’m having a problem with the Provisioning profiles, do you know a way of seeing the Logs of a Build with xCode to see the correct ones that I should use?

[@SPFExpert]

Great, the mobile provisioning profiles can be tricky, especially if you have more than one. I have a video that talks through how to handle that as well as a public repo with example code. To see the Xcode logs, I use the xcodebuild command. I Reference it in several videos, and you could run that on your workstation or in the kid have action, which would then be accessible in the action logs. Here’s a link to a video that talks about how to run Xcode command line: www.andrewhoog.com/post/how-to-build-an-ios-app-archive-via-command-line/

[@pabloalvarez2886]

Yea i saw that link! but i quitted because i had a lot of errors trying to build the project via xcodebuild command. Thats why i still can't see the Logs, and figure out what should be the correct Mobile provisioning Profiles and certificates@@SPFExpert. The error that i have using xcodebuild command is: fatal error: module map file '/Users/pablo/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Glik-bxbwmzcivjasbkbiqxqkmjmbxeli/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/FirebaseCoreInternal/FirebaseCoreInternal.modulemap' not found And in my Github Action, i'm having the next error: error: Signing certificate is invalid. Signing certificate "Apple Development: Pablo Alvarez Sanhueza (5T8495ARD9)", serial number "5559B7A3CA5E2DB37D26C57053EBBD43", is not valid for code signing. It may have been revoked or expired. (in target 'Glik' from project 'Glik') But i can build my app locally using that certificate in my laptop. That is my issue right now :( thank you so much for replying Andrew

[@SPFExpert]

How are you adding fire Bace? It’s likely that before you try to build the app, command line or we could have actions, you’ll need to first run the command to install third-party packages. Are you using Swift Package Manager (SPM)? P.S. you might want to check out this flag as I use it in a simple Hacker News reader I wrote. This build script works but I don’t remember where/how the dependencies are installed. I’m suing SPM. github.com/ahoog42/simple-hn-reader/blob/main/.github/workflows/full-scan-on-pr-and-release.yml#L75

[@oztech]

Is it possible to post the ipa automatically to the App Store not downloading and uploading it manually?

[@udayananthu2326]

Yes you can upload an ipa automatically to the App Store