Inability to Generate a code signing certificate for free users

[adamappdev]

Hi there,

We're experimenting with CodeMagic for our Flutter iOS/Android builds in my organization. As we have not reached to a successful build yet, we have not decided to move to the paid version yet, so we're still using the free version.

Our current problem in our builds is the flutter build ipa command to build the iOS archive. It completes with this log:

Building without sound null safety
For more information see https://dart.dev/null-safety/unsound-null-safety

Building App Store IPA...                                           3.5s
Encountered error while creating the IPA:
error: exportArchive: "Runner.app" requires a provisioning profile.

Try distributing the app in Xcode: "open /Users/builder/clone/build/ios/archive/Runner.xcarchive"

I think this does have something to do with what's described in this doc. However, In the Adding the Code signing certificate step, it instructs me to Open your Codemagic Team settings, and as I am in the free tier I do not have that section in my console.

[icarusdust]

Hi @adamappdev, are you uploading your provisioning profile via code signing identities ? If so, is it matching your uploaded certificate ? A build id would be great to see it in more details.

[adamappdev]

Thanks for such a fast reply!

I did not have a step where I did something with provisioning profile. I configured my code signing to be automatic from Codemagic. I may have missed a step maybe, I'm not sure what you are referring to.

This is my latest build id 631087434aad2afe1d75ac1e, it is marked as successful but the flutter build ipa step returns as successful even though it throws an error.
Here is a screenshot of the output of the build: (I've replaced my secret ids with asterisks)

[icarusdust]

Thanks for sharing the build id. The documentation reference above referred to signing identities, hence why my question about uploading it manually.
Let's start with your yaml first, I see that your android settings exist in your ios workflow as well. I am assuming that you downloaded the ready yaml from the Workflow Editor. Please try to configure your yaml as this and let's continue from that point on.

[adamappdev]

Hi @icarusdust,

I've filled my new codemagic.yaml file according to the link you have sent me, except for certificate_credentials, is this supposed to be filled by following this doc?

[icarusdust]

Yes, it is necessary to provide it with automatic code signing option. Please check this doc instead.

[icarusdust]

By certificate_credentials, I believe you mean CERTIFICATE_PRIVATE_KEY.

[adamappdev]

As the template file mentions certificate_credentials, what I'll be doing is to insert my CERTIFICATE_PRIVATE_KEY into the console Environment variables and add it into a group with the name certificate_credentials, is that correct?

[adamappdev]

I've overcome the problem of this discussion, now I'm having another one in the Publishing step, but I think I'll figure this out on my own. @icarusdust Thanks for your efforts and very fast replies.