How to create an ipa file?

So what’s an ipa actually????

ipa is iPhone Application Archive. So its just an archive, a zip file.

Can’t believe me right?

I know you all have made ipa file by changing your target to iOS device and runningProduct->Archive. But there is no fun in it, because you think there is something very suspicious happening that only Apple know, right?

Today we do it all by ourselves, thats where the fun is.

In XCode folder structure, you can see


Products->YourAPPName.app.

Right click on the .app file->Show in finder.

Now create a new folder and name it Payload. Copy the .app file into it and compress the folder. So now you got Payload.zip file.

Now rename it as Payload.ipa.

Just look at the screen, you are now Apple.