Topic: apple certificate
Description
Commands in the apple certificate topic are prefixed shipthis apple certificate.
These commands relate to iOS Distribution Certificates within your Apple Developer account.
- You can view the Distribution Certificates in the Apple Developer Portal.
- You can more about Certificates in the Apple Documentation.
- You can view the Certificates which ShipThis uses in the ShipThis Dashboard.
An iOS Distribution Certificate is used to authenticate and authorize the distribution of iOS apps, ensuring they are signed and trusted for installation on devices or submission to the App Store.
ShipThis uses this certificate on our cloud-build servers when compiling new builds of your game.
You will need to be authenticated against ShipThis and Apple before you can use these commands. To do that please run the following commands first:
Example
Commands
apple certificate create
Description
Creates an iOS Distribution Certificate in your Apple Developer account. Saves the certificate with the private key to your ShipThis account
Help Output
apple certificate export
Description
Saves the current Apple Distribution Certificate to a ZIP file.
Help Output
apple certificate import
Description
Imports an iOS Distribution Certificate to your ShipThis account
Help Output
apple certificate status
Description
Displays the status of the iOS Distribution certificates in your Apple and ShipThis accounts. These are used to sign all of your iOS apps.