iOS applications cannot be uploaded to their own server for Internet users to download and install like Android applications, so the generated app needs to be uploaded to the app store, and then the user goes to the app store to install the app.
Since the tutorial on the official website uses a Mac computer to generate a certificate and put it on the shelf, many users who use hbuilderx packaging do not have a Mac computer, so this article will teach you how to use a Windows computer to generate a packaging certificate and how to put it on the app store.
Since the process of generating a certificate is relatively cumbersome, you can directly refer to the article I wrote before to open an Apple developer account and generate a packaging certificate:
https://blog.csdn.net/h5xiaoyu/article/details/128948100
Through the above tutorial, after generating the certificate and certificate description file, it can be packaged into a file with the suffix ipa. Later, we will focus on how to put this ipa file on the shelves:
1. Log in to the Apple Developer Center. After logging in to the backend, find app store connect on the homepage of the backend, click the app module below it, and enter the app management page as shown below:
2. If you haven’t created an app yet, click the blue plus sign in the picture above to create an app now in this interface. Please note that when creating an app, the package ID needs to be consistent with the package name filled in when packaging. For example, this format:
com.companyname.xxxapp3. After creating the app, click on the app to enter the app’s listing information filling page. You will encounter the following scenario, which requires you to provide app screenshots of iOS devices of various sizes, as shown below:
4. If you don’t have so many iOS devices to take screenshots, you can use Banana Cloud Editor’s screenshot generation function to take screenshots:
Log in to Banana Cloud Editor and synthesize the pictures required for ios screenshots, as shown below:
5. When filling in other listing information, you will encounter the picture below, which asks you to select a build version. There is no build version yet because you have not uploaded the ipa yet:
6. Officially recommended upload tools, such as xcode, can only be installed on Mac computers. We do not use official tools to upload here. Here we can use Banana Cloud Editor recommended in step 4 to upload, and switch to the Banana Cloud Editor interface. As shown below:
Follow Banana Cloud Editor's prompts to upload and the upload will be successful.
It will take about 30 minutes after the upload is successful to see the newly uploaded version in the build version for selection. Then fill in other information to complete the listing.