mikehouse/kinopub-ipa-resign

Kinopub application IPA resign tvOS iOS

Kinopub service IPA resinging automation

Requirements

• MacOS
• ruby 3+
• bundler
• Apple Certificate installed in Keychain Access app

Kinopub TVOS

About

Original IPA file taken from official telegram chat.

shasum -a 256 ./tvos/micro_tvOS-25_11.2023.ipa

should produce 0f91b1830684f28125b9bc4b2296fcf48f3d6cd5ffb5746e954822ff0c96e16d hash.

Install dependencies (see Gemfile)

bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle'
bundle install

Resign Kinopub TVOS ipa file

• Call from repo root directory. Must use full files paths.

bundle exec fastlane resign_ipa_tvos provision:/Users/my_user/Downloads/embedded.mobileprovision

• If you know what identity needed you can pass it explicitly (or the script will search it through found certificates):

bundle exec fastlane resign_ipa_tvos identity:5EBCD74500DBE201A18629CDCE743303F47D0941 provision:/Users/my_user/Downloads/embedded.mobileprovision

Result

If success then can be found at ./fastlane/resign/micro_tvOS-25_11.2023.ipa

What it will do

1. It takes original Kinopub tvos ipa file (./tvos/micro_tvOS-25_11.2023.ipa)
2. Unpacks it
3. Takes bundle id from your provided mobileprovision file and replaces Kinopub's one
4. Removes from Kinopub's application Plugins directory as not required
5. Repacks it back to .ipa
6. Uses fastlane resign tool (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/resign/) to resign IPA file by provided mobileprovision

Install IPA TVOS

1. Find paired to MacOS your Apple TV in Apple Configurator app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-configurator/id1037126344?mt=12)
2. Drag and Drop there resigned IPA file
3. Done

If Apple Configurator app does not see your paired Apple TV

• Unpack generated ipa (ipa it is just zip archive)
• Find there ****.app/ directory
• Open Xcode -> Window -> Devices and Simulators
• In Devices section find your Apple TV
• Click Add installed app plus button
• Select there ****.app/ directory

Problem to Find/Pair Apple TV to MacOS ?

Here is my gist with full description how to pair Apple TV using Xcode https://gist.github.com/mikehouse/01ffe9ce1a5793406150f7b2fd15abbc

Why ?

I didn't want to use appdb.io service to make the same thing.

How to create .mobileprovision using Xcode

1. Open Xcode
2. LogIn in Xcode using your Apple ID (Preferences -> Accounts)
3. Create new project

• File -> New -> Project
• Select there tvos tab
• Select App

• Type your app bundle id
• Select your developer team

4. Device destination is set as your real paired Apple TV that Xcode is able to add its UUID to .mobileprovision file

5. Build project (Product -> Build)
6. Go to the build project directory (Product -> Show Build Folder in Finder)
7. Find there in Products/Debug-appletvos/your-app-name.app/embedded.mobileprovision file

Kinopub iOS App

shasum -a 256 ./ios/cncrt.ipa # 846a5d88b86ad52d1075f59f0c0b436b635cee306ce0fcb9377a11f024e52f3f  ios/cncrt.ipa

Resign the ios App

bundle exec fastlane resign_ipa_ios provision:/Users/my_user/Downloads/embedded.mobileprovision

There are two types of accounts for signing:

1. Developer account (paid 100$ per year, a sign is valid for a year)
2. Free account (a sign is valid for 7 days)

Also there are two types of app delivering to a device:

1. *.ipa (zip archive for *.app) file (using App Configuration/Firebase/TestFlight)
2. install *.app directly to a device from Terminal

For free account the only direct install of *.app available. Apple did it this way because you are allowed to install an app with free account only during development from Xcode. That is, if you have only free account, then after signing there are only two ways to install an app:

First way by installing ipa using libimobiledevice tool

1. Re-sign original ipa (ios/cncrt.ipa) using the project's script
2. Unpack re-signed ipa to get an app bundle
3. Install an app bundle directly to a device using set of libs from libimobiledevice

# find connected iPhone 
idevice_id # 00008000-001A048C3A712345

# install an app to a device
ideviceinstaller --udid 00008000-001A048C3A712345 --install ~/Downloads/kinopub_app_resign/fastlane/resign/Payload/cncrt.app

Second way by installing /.app using Xcode

• Unpack generated ipa
• Find there ****.app/ directory
• Open Xcode -> Window -> Devices and Simulators
• In Devices section find your iPhone
• Click Add installed app plus button
• Select there ****.app/ directory

For a paid developer account just install the app using script created ipa file, delivering ipa to a device using App Configurator or AirDrop.