Building your application for iOS using studio

In this recipe, we will continue the process started in the two previous recipes and build our application for both development and distribution to the iTunes store.

Tip

Remember that if all else fails, you can always build your application manually in XCode by navigating to the build/iphone folder of your project and opening the XCode project file.

How to do it...

Let's cover how to build your application for development and distribution.

Building your application for development

Open your project in Appcelerator Studio; we are using the LoanCalc app from Chapter 1, Building Apps Using Native UI Components, as an example. However, you may use any project that you like. Ensure that the application ID in the TiApp.xml file matches the ID you used while creating your provisioning profiles. In my case, this ID is com.jasonkneen.loancalc, but you will have to use your own unique ID here.

Click on the Device drop-down at the top of the Studio window...