Using MacOS Catalina: "developer cannot be verified."

Andycorm

Hi all! After a few years of hanging up the game dev gloves I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. Unfortunately, I also just updated my mac to Catalina, which seems to have turned the security up to 11.

After figuring out I needed the newest version of the AIR SDK (v33), and yet need to keep my <application xmlns=""> config.xml property set to v32, I've hit yet another hurdle: Although emulator testing works fine, intelliJ is now no longer able to put apps onto my iPhone. The exact error is as follows:

“idb” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware
Chrome downloaded this file yesterday at 11:20 AM from airsdk.harman.com

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Anyone have any ideas on how to calm down Catalina's security?

JohnBlackburne

I am not on Catalina yet, so this might not work. But the two main ways of bypassing Mac security are:

Instead of double-clicking use right-click and select open from the context menu. If you do this it adds an extra option to the dialog, 'open anyway'
in the System Preferences under Security and Privacy you can adjust the level of security

Andycorm

JohnBlackburne Thanks for the tips, although none of the security settings seem to allow it, (I even used a command line hack to set it to allow downloaded apps from "anywhere").

Also, "idb" is being opened automatically, so I can't think of a way to use the right-clicking method ☹️

JohnBlackburne

You could try grabbing idb from an older version of the SDK, though that seems like a long shot. Only other thing you can do is contact Harman, or post an issue on Adobe Runtime Support.

tuarua

What works for me is
System Preferences > Security and Privacy > Developer Tools
Add from the AIR SDK

adt
iIPA
idb
ld64

Otherwise when you see the error click cancel and then immediately go to Security and Privacy and click the "Allow Anyway" message

Andycorm

tuarua Hmm, my Security and Privacy panel doesn't seem to have a "Developer Tools" section ☹️

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tuarua

Under the Privacy tab?

vamapaull

I had the same problem and clicking "Allow Anyway" and then "Open" in Animate CC a bunch of times finally solved it for me.