[Technical Questions] TestFlight Apple Developer Necessary

[nick-allen21]

In what area do you have a technical challenge?

Xcode, Simulator & Previews

Description

Hi, our team is pushing to TestFlight for the first time. We've done most the phone testing use Apple Developer as this was easiest with Bluetooth but want to make sure this is up and running for the final presentation. I am tryin got upload to Test Flight now and online it says that we have to make an Archive and then distribute that archive. I saw Miguel's question earlier, we were actually able to make the archive but afterwards we were unable to distribute due to the following error :

Am I going about this incorrectly. I remember we received a TestFlight invitation early in the quarter. Were we intended to use that and then somehow deploy our app there?

I see that I can go on GitHub and then press "Test on TestFlight" But for some reason this brings up a really old version of our app. How would I get the most recent commits to appear on Github

Reproduction

Try to deploy the main branch of the QuanBioSync app to TestFlight

Expected behavior

I expected to be able to distribute my app on TestFlight without joining as a developer.

Additional context

No response

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this course's Code of Conduct and Contributing Guidelines

[PSchmiedmayer]

TestFlight deployments are happening automatically when you merge a version of your app into he main branch. There is a GitHub Action in place that builds and releases the app for you.

In your case, it seems like it failed in the last few cases as the bundle ID has been changed to a custom one (see build log here: https://github.com/CS342Industry/2025-QuanBioSync/actions/runs/13819854739/job/38663149980#step:20:653). Please be sure that you use the correct bundle identifier. In addition, there have been some build errors from dependencies that you no longer use. I reverted the bundle identifier changes and remove the relevant parts in https://github.com/CS342Industry/2025-QuanBioSync/pull/32.

Please be sure that you remove all uncommented code in the app + all files and views that are not used. Please ensure that you use the latest state from the main branch going forward.

[nick-allen21]

Ah in order to run on the phone through Xcode developer we've been changing the bundle ID to custom ones as we were getting errors when we did not. Ok from now on I will let the team know that we should we doing this through TestFlight.

And yes thank you, we are in the pruning process now.

[PSchmiedmayer]

You can still test on your phone, just ensure that you don't commit the changes to the bundle ID when you plan to merge your PR 👍

[nick-allen21]

Got it, we will discard those changes before we do PRs from now on.