Hi all ! Using this post I am going to describe the complete apple store upload process using XCode 4.2. Pre-define/assumed things.

• You already know what Apple store is & why do we need to upload our application there.
• You are done with the development & you are ready for the apple store upload process.
• You do have the XCode 4.2 or latest tools, Mac OSX (Snowleopard/Lion), iOS Developer Account & Original Apple Machine.
• You want to know/learn – How to upload the application to apple store.

Now, I want you guys to be stay calm. Please don’t get worried by viewing the length of this post. I know this post is incredibly longer. But that is just because of I tried to cover as many steps as possible. So, Those guys who already know few of the steps can skip as & when required. Here, This post includes all steps required for apple store upload process & all the screen-shots are taken during the actual application upload process of some client. Screen-shots were taken at the time of uploading an application for client. So, please don’t feel strange or awkward when you find blur in screen-shots. I applied blur their in images to hide the client details. So that my company might not sue me for this (: hope you understand. Well, Lets start then. I want talk much. To the point, based on above assumption, I am going to start this tutorial.

1) Open this URL => http://developer.apple.com/iphone

2) Sign in using your/client’s credentials

3) Now, Click on on the iOS Provisioning Portal as illustrated in image below.

4) Now, Click on the Certificates section as illustrated in image below.

5) Click on the distribution tab & Click on the ‘Request Certificate‘ as illustrated in image below ( If you already have a distribution certificate, skip this step )

6) It will ask to upload ‘CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest‘ file. You can generate it using the steps described within the image below. ( Even if you have trouble creating this file, read this post ).

7) Once you done with uploading that file, You have to click on the submit button. Once you click on the submit button, The web-page will look like this. You have to reload/refresh if it indicates ‘issued‘ as status. Once you refresh the page, you should be able to download.

8) Download the certificates ( two certificates ) as illustrated in image below.

9) Open the finder & locate the files you downloaded. Now open the ‘KeyChain Access‘ & then drag & drop the downloaded certificates in to your ‘Keychain access‘ as illustrated here in image below.

10 ) After drag & drop of screen-shots, it will ask for the confirmation as below. Just click on OK button. ( may be twice )

11) Once you done adding certificates into your keychain, It should look as follows ( I have selected keys section – notice bottom-left corner )

12) Now, open your browser & navigate back to the iOS Provisioning portal & go to App IDs section as illustrated in image below.

13) On the image above ( for step – 12 ) there is a button for creating App ID ( On the top-right corner, easily noticeable ). Click on that & you will be redirected to page as illustrated below.

14) Fill up the appropriate details ( description & example are there for all of them in image itself ) & then click on submit button.

15) Once you click on the submit button, your App ID will appear in the list. You can notice it here in the following image at the bottom area. ( I am not going to enable, iCloud or push-notification. If your application requires such feature, configure & set it appropriately )

16) Now, Click on the Provisioning link from the left-corner & navigate to Distribution portal as illustrated in image below.

17) In above image (step-16) there is a button ‘New Profile‘ found on the top-right corner. Click on that & Fill up the necessary details as illustrated below & Select your App ID (created by you by following above steps) & then click on ‘Submit‘ button. (Make sure that Distribution Method is set to ‘App Store‘ only)

18) If download button doesn’t appear for downloading provisioning profile, just reload the page. Now, download the provisioning profile using that download button – illustrated in image below.

19) Now, Open the finder & locate your downloaded provisioning file. Open the XCode & open your project & then click on the organizer as illustrated in image below.

20) Once organizer window opens, Switch to ‘Devices‘ Tab as shown below & then click on the Provisioning profile listed under ‘Library‘ section.

21) Now Drag & Drop downloaded Provisioning Profile.

22) Copy the App Identifier. ( as you have to apply that App Identifier to your project. )

23) Now, Open your project-info.plist file & set the App Identifier as shown below.

24) Now, Set the ‘iOS Device‘ from the active Scheme.

25) Select project from Navigator, Select your target & set appropriate Code Signing Attributes. Okey ! Rest of the steps, I will describe in next post. I thought, putting all the steps within a single post would be fine. But when I viewed this post by myself, I found that all these images takes time to load & I have yet to add more 25 steps. So, Click here to view further instructions for Apple Store Upload process.