Adobe Animate CC iOS Air Project

vamapaull

Hi there. I have a client who has an application developed with Adobe Animate CC and published for iOS. I am trying to debug the application through Animate CC. I have my iPad connected via USB but seems like every time I'm trying to publish to the iPad I get this error:
"The device has encountered an unexpected error. WARNING: could not locate iTunesMetadata.plist in archive!
WARNING: could not locate Payload/Appname.app/SC_Info/Appname.sinf in archive!
ERROR: Install failed. Got error "ApplicationVerificationFailed" with code 0xe8008015: Failed to verify code signature of /var/installd/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installd.staging/temp.0kc2kk/extracted/Payload/Appname.app : 0xe8008015 (A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found.)"

Not sure how to properly debug this application. If I publish the application and upload it to testflight it loads properly, but I don't have a debugger when I do that.

Anyone else had to deal with something like this?

Shaun_Max

vamapaull I once had this problem & the issue was the conflict between the certificate authority and provisioning profile.

I would recommend a fresh certificate generation & a dev provisioning profile from the scratch.

Daniel

Yeah, those are the really "fun" issues ... also, deleting the app completely and restarting the iOS device can sometimes make a difference.

ma

Have you installed your development provisioning profile on the device?

In order to debug an app you need to create a development profile and install the profile on the device.

If you have Xcode installed you can see the installed profiles by opening up the device manager and right clicking on your device to "show provisioning profiles". You can then install your profile if it's not there.

vamapaull

I can see my provisioning profile in Xcode under "show provisioning profiles" but if I delete it and try to add it manually through Xcode it says: "Failed to install one or more provisioning profiles on the device."

ma

Odd, did you confirm you have the correct device identifier in the developer console for the profile?

vamapaull

ma I don't have access to the developer console. My client has. But he says he added my iPads ID before exporting the provisioning profile.

pol2095

Try to create a simple iOS app in Xcode using the same package name and test it in USB.
N. B. : it work without being an Apple Developer (program annual fee).

vamapaull

We created the certificates and provisioning profile again.

I then created a new Adobe Air app inside IntelliJ and published on my iPad from there. Everything worked perfectly.

With this new cert and provisioning profile Adobe Animate CC now gives me this error: "Could not access the digital certificate."

The difference is that if I publish the app from IntelliJ, I get a request to enter my MacBooks password so it can access the info inside Keychain and if I publish from Adobe Animate CC I just get that error message.

Shaun_Max

vamapaull MacBooks password so it can access the info inside Keychain

I believe there should be an option to "Allow Always" right ?

vamapaull

I noticed that the app tried to be installed on the iPad but it didn't have an icon. I then looked and the icons were mentioned in the XML descriptor but the icons folder was not included in the packed app. I included the icons folder and now I have a new error: Usage error (incorrect arguments).

Shaun_Max

vamapaull would it be possible for you to share the screenshot of the error?

vamapaull

I created a new FLA file and added just a text field to it. Then used the same certificate and provisioning profile along with the app ID and pushed on my iPad for debugging. It worked perfectly!

So, the certificate and provisioning profile work fine in Adobe Animate CC. Mt client's FLA file has some sort of issue, of the document XML file. At least I know it's not a certificate/provisioning profile issue. I will look more into what can be the problem and hopefully I will get my client's app working with a debugger on the iPad.

ma

vamapaull If that's the case I'd suggest you check what's in the "entitlements" section in your app descriptor as this must match what's in the profile and can cause a similar error when installing to a device.

vamapaull

I managed to debug the app and fix the issues my client had. Now I'm struggling to compile the app for the app store (that worked fine before). As soon as I include the icons needed for the app store in the descriptor I get the "Usage error (incorrect arguments)." popup. All kinds of issues with Adobe Animate CC. Everything seems to be unpredictable and hard to work with.

vamapaull

After a lot of trials I finally managed to publish the app from Adobe Animate CC. I tried everything I could think of. I tried removing some ANEs and see if they were the problem.

I then noticed that Adobe Animate would put a <version>1.0</version> tag at the end of the XML descriptor and would not take <versionNumber>9.1.4</versionNumber> into account.

In the end I tried this:
I got to: File > AIR for iOS settings. Clicked on the Languages tab. Deselected the language I had previously selected. Hit OK.
Then: File > AIR for iOS settings. Clicked on the Languages tab. Selected the desired language. Hit OK.
Then: File > AIR for iOS settings. Published the app and everything worked perfectly. The resulting XML would not contain the <version></version> tag anymore and I was able to publish the application from Adobe Animate CC.

So, so, so many bugs. I will try to stay away from Adobe Animate CC Air projects from now on.