To upload the ipa to the app store, you must first have an Apple developer account. You must use the certificate of your own Apple developer account for packaging before you can upload the ipa to your own Apple account and submit it to the app store.
If you don’t have an Apple developer account yet, or you have a certificate but it was not generated by your own account, you can refer to this article to create a packaging certificate first, package it into an ipa
https://blog.csdn.net/h5xiaoyu/article/details/115005663
After you package the ipa file, you need to upload the ipa file to the build version of the Apple Developer Center, and then submit it to the app store in the Apple Developer Center. The process is as follows:
Enter the Apple Developer Center, click app store connect, and enter the app store. If the app has not been created yet, you must create the app first (note that when creating the app, the bundle ID of the APP must be consistent with the package name packaged by your development tools), as shown below :
The format of the package name needs to use this package name format of java:
com.xxxxxxxx.test.appAfter creating the app, click in and you will see the interface for creating a new version. There is a lot of information to fill in. One of the items in the middle is to select the build version. You cannot directly upload the ipa here. You need to use the tools it provides to upload. However, we found that, The tools it provides were previously installed on a mac computer. If you have a mac computer, you can download xcode to upload.
If you only have a Windows computer, then you can use Banana Cloud Editor to upload the ipa to the build version. The address of Banana Cloud Editor is as follows:
地址：https://www.yunedit.comAs shown below:
Log in to Banana Cloud Editor, enter the console for uploading ipa, and upload ipa, as shown in the interface below
During the upload step, it will ask us to enter the Apple Developer Center account and special password. Note that the special password required here is not the login password. Don’t make a mistake. For the special password, you can refer to the Banana Cloud Editor upload interface. Tutorial to set up.
After the upload is successful, it will take about 30 minutes to see it in the build version.
Then go back to the app store connect, fill in other information, and then you can put it on the shelf and submit it for manual review. During the process, it will ask us to provide screenshots of the APP of various sizes. If you don’t have real device screenshots, you can use the synthetic picture function of Banana Cloud Editor. Generate screenshots. Since the generation process is relatively simple, I will not explain them one by one here.