Question

My iphone app is currently in Beta and I am distributing it to beta testers via ad hoc distribution. If I want to add new users to the beta can I just add their devices and download/distribute a new provisioning profile file, or do I need to rebuild the app with that new app and redistribute both the app and the provisioning profile file?

Answer 1

I’ve been dealing with this issue and found out this post to be extremelly helpful. Specially this part:

So my new approach – which has worked
well so far – is to create a new Ad
Hoc mobile provision file for each
beta release. For example, when I
release v1.1 beta 1 to my beta
testers, I create a new Ad Hoc mobile
provision file called
“NRE_1_1_0_beta1.mobileprovision”, and
assign every single beta testing
device I know of (at that time) to
that mobile provision file. I then
build one Ad Hoc copy of the app,
signed with this mobile provision
file, and send the app and the file to
all users. This requires each user
has to install a new mobile provision
file each time they receive a new
beta, but this makes it much easier to
see which provisioning files they have
installed on their device.

And, yes, you need to re-build your App once you get a new mobile provision.