Differencebetween a Development Provisioning Profile and an Ad Hoc Provisioning Profile

What is the difference between Ad Hoc provisioning profile and a Developer ID provisioning profile?

Ad Hoc provisioning allows you to distribute to a limited number (up to 100) of specific Macs, each of which must be registered in your App Store Connect account.

Developer ID provisioning lets you distribute to anybody on a Mac.

In either case, the end user will need to have Gatekeeper set up to allow apps downloaded from "Mac App Store and identified developers" or "Anywhere."

So they are similar. The most interesting difference may be that you cannot use in-app purchase with Developer ID provisioning.

Difference: Ad Hoc distribution and Developmental distribution

Expanding on your comments

1. Ad Hoc builds can be distributed and installed though iTunes, the X Code organizer or though the web. One service for managing adhoc builds and testing is Testflight (https://testflightapp.com/) check them out they have lots of resources regarding provision profiles,

2. Normally your distribution builds are optimized with debugging information stripped, so yes you can not debug adhoc & distribution builds in the debugger.

3. Your App ID is linked to APNS, so the certificate you generate is linked to your application. Device tokens on Sandbox and production are different.

To answer your questions

1. for your iOS developer profile you're limited to 100 devices across the entire account. These are shared between applications. 100 devices means that you are allowed to register 100 devices per developer account per year. At the end of the year when you renew your account you can edit this list and reset your device quota.

2. Both ad hoc builds and developer builds require your UDIDs. What happens is that the provision profile (development or adhoc) must match the provision profile that the app was signed against. Under development it's usually easiest to use a wildcard App ID (such as *) but when you are releasing (under ad hoc or app store distribution) you should use the full App ID name such as com.company.appname this is to identify your app under services such as In app purchases or Push notification services

Difference between Development, Production, Development Provisioning Profile and Distribution Provisioning Profile?

when you want to distribute ipa or Diawi to other users or you want to run app on your testing device than you need development certificates but if you want to upload app to app store for test flight or release than you need distribution certificate

the first section is for development machine you are using (i.e for MAC)

means it is for mac certification the mac you are using is for development or for distribution when you create certification you are given private keys which is stored in your keychain

and last sections is for app means the app you are making is just for development or for release

when you create certification in first section each certificate is having team id using that team id you create provisioning certificates in second section

which must be matched with team id certification stored in keychain

Difference between Development and Distribution Provisioning Profile on Provisioning Portal?

Just to explain a bit more, the development provisioning profile is for testing your App on a device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), and the distribution profile is used when you're submitting your application to Apple to get it onto the store.

Both profiles are linked to your account as well as keychains on your computer.

If you'd like to install your software on several devices without using the App Store, you'll have to create an Ad Hoc distribution profile with the device ID numbers, and install that profile as well as the software, on all of the devices.

Why not use development provisioning instead of ad hoc?

There's one situation in which you need an Ad Hoc profile, and that's when you want to test Push Notifications.

If you test Push Notifications on a Development Provisioning Profile, your push notifications need to be sent using the Development Push Notification Certificate for your SSL connections to Apple's sandbox APNS server.

If you want to test Push Notifications using your Production Push Notification Certificate and the live APNS servers, you'll have to deploy your app to a device using a Distribution Certificate and Ad Hoc Provisioning Profile (which includes doing the Entitlement.plist steps, which you can ordinarily skip if you were only using Developer Provisioning Profiles).

Also note that when you deploy using an Ad Hoc profile, your device token will be different from the one you use when you're using the development profile. This the recommended way to test APN because there's no back end changes that need to be made between the Ad Hoc build and the final live deployment on the AppStore.

What is difference between .ipa with development provisioning and .ipa with adhoc distribution provisioning profile?

Development provisioning profile

the development provisioning profile is for testing your App on a device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)

Ad hoc distribution provisioning profile

Adhoc testing is when you have completed development and want to distribute your app to multiple users for testing (your second question). Just create a distribution profile for adhoc testing and select all the device ids for which the profile is valid. In that case you will only need to send the .app file and .mobileprovision file to each user testing your app.

Details Desription:

If you'd like to install your software on several devices without using the App Store, you'll have to create an Ad Hoc distribution profile with the device ID numbers, and install that profile as well as the software, on all of the devices.

App store distribution provisioning profile           

For submission of the app to app store, you have to create a distribution mobile provisional file with the "App Store" option selected.

1.you want to test your App then use - Development provisioning profile.

2.test multiple users without interaction with APP store then use - Ad hoc distribution provisioning profile

2.multiple users interaction with APP store then use - App store distribution provisioning profile

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