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Provisioning profile

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, provisioning profile means: An Apple file that connects an app ID, signing certificates and, for testing, specific devices, so that a signed iOS app is allowed to run or be distributed.

In Turkish: provisioning profile, dağıtım profili

How it is used

There are development, ad hoc, App Store and enterprise profiles. Developers create, download and renew them in the Apple Developer portal, or let Xcode manage them automatically. Errors such as 'no matching provisioning profile' are a common topic in team chats.

Example sentences

  1. Add the tester's iPhone to the provisioning profile, or the ad hoc build won't install.

  2. The provisioning profile expired, so the company's internal app stopped opening.

Common collocations

  • renew a provisioning profile
  • ad hoc provisioning profile
  • development profile
  • no matching provisioning profile
  • code signingAdding a digital signature to an app with a certificate, which proves who made it and shows that it has not been changed since it was built.
  • bundle IDA unique identifier for an app, usually written in reverse domain style such as com.company.appname, which the system and the store use to recognize it.
  • XcodeApple's development environment for writing, building, testing and publishing apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and other Apple platforms. It runs only on macOS.
  • TestFlightApple's service for sending beta builds of iOS apps to testers, who install them with the TestFlight app before the version is released on the App Store.

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