Launch day

Yesterday was a big day.

Breakfast with the Crazy Chicken where we went over a few things including preparing for a five minute presentation we were going to give at the business club later that day.

During the croissants I received an email from the president of the club's chapter that we should get there early so we could hand over our deck.

Went home and worked on the QR codes for the flyers and last minute checking.

Meanwhile CC contacted a couple of businesses who are very interested.

During the afternoon one of the businesses (an OMB) was having problems with the iPhone version of the app.

I double checked yet again and then found that I was having problems as well.

I remade the QR codes then went to meet the CC who visiting the other business.

Her son was also having problems downloading the app but I couldn't replicate it. Maybe he had an older iOS version.

After meeting the business owner and the CC, the CC and I rushed around the corner to find a print shop (incidentally Siri found for me not only print shops but escort agencies as well. Not what I had asked for). We needed flyers printed.

One shop point blank refused to do anything this week but did mention another shop nearby. We went there, in a queue and I left the CC, eventually grabbed a taxi and made it to the business club just in time.

The CC, with whom I was going to do the presentation, came along in another second and made it with seconds to spare.

We gave the presentation which seemed to go ok.

We also handed out the flyers.

As we all went to do the networking/eating thing some people with iPhones reported problems with the QR code on the flyer.

After eating I talked to one of them, checked his iOS (same as mine), checked his QR scanner (same as mine), doubled checked the flyer - it loaded on mine. Very strange as my iPhone is a new one and I haven't reconfigured it in any meaningful way (e.g. putting it in a developer mode - not sure there is just a thing).

It hit me early this morning. The certificates I have been using have been for developers only and in fact only my iPhone was assigned to the list of authorised developers. So that is why no other phone would work.

Spent most of today reading up on Apple certificates - totally not straightforward. I managed to understand the subject and then incorporate a proper production certificate for the app.

Then found that I had to first have it tested on iTunes Connect and then found that to do that I have to load Application Loader.

On running the app through this loader it gave error messages which, apparently, only XCode can deal with.

So now I am running XCode's simulator which is rather slow on my Mac.

Quite an odyssey.