Command line Update of Provisioning Profiles

Here's my bash script for it, where the first argument to the script ($1) is the location of the new profiles.

rm -Rf ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/*
cp "$1"/*.* ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/

Basically, anything in that ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/ folder can be used to build with (and will show up in Xcode).

If you're looking to stand up a CI system, I recently gave a talk on using Hudson for it, and put up some slides and notes over here. My email is on my site if you have any questions about it.

Try using apple_dev_center.rb from https://github.com/lacostej/apple-dev

It parses the info from the apple developer web site and download the profiles for you to copy them to the proper location automatically.

Update: Cupertino will no longer work on latest iTunes. Look into using sigh instead

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Sounds like this command line interface will help out big time:

https://github.com/nomad/cupertino

which allows you to download all distribution profiles like so (thanks @tdubik):

ios profiles:download:all --type distribution

Another approach would be to use an Enterprise development license ($300/year) that lets you build for devices without provisioning! So you can build your app, and send it to a device without ever needing to go to the Apple Dev center or register any new devices.

Note that this wouldn't allow you to distribute your app to the appstore, but if you're a development house that builds tons of apps for clients, it may ease your "build and send to clients" process quite a piece! I'm not sure if this would be in Apple's legitimate use policies or not, so please check that out before considering that option. But it might be something to consider for prototypes, etc, and when they actually want to ship it, you get them to get their own developer program license.