Beginning iOS 5 Application Development

CREATING AN APPLICATION ID

The next step of the process is to create an Application ID (App ID) that you use to identify your application. An App ID is a series of characters used to uniquely identify an application (or applications) on your iOS device. An App ID is represented in the following format: <Bundle Seed ID>.<Bundle Identifier>.

On the iOS Provisioning Portal page, click the App IDs item on the left (see Figure A-15). Click the New App ID button to create a new App ID. On a new page, you enter the details for the App ID (see Figure A-16).

FIGURE A-15

FIGURE A-16

Enter a description for the App ID you are creating. For this example, it is MyiOS5ApplD. This name will be used to identify your App ID. Leave the Bundle Seed ID option as Use the Team ID. For the Bundle Identifier, you have two options:

• Give it a unique identifier, e.g., com.yourcompany.appname
• Use a wildcard character (*) as the trailing character, e.g., com.yourcompany.*, or simply use *

Using the wildcard character enables you to use a single App ID for all your applications, whereas if you use a unique identifier for the Bundle Identifier, you will need a unique App ID for each application.

In general, it is easier to use the wildcard character, as you can use one App ID for all your applications. Here, ...