I want to sign up for my Apple Developer account solely so i can provision an app and put it on a device(s) to test.
How long does it take after I submit my payment for the Apple Developer account for Apple to respond? Is it a mechanized system so I can start putting my app on my device?
Is there any other way to get my app onto a real device in the time while I wait?
I just want to test real code — which includes Bluetooth functionality — on my iPad mini. But apparently I cannot do that until I can provision the app.
But I can't provision the app until I have a dev account.
But, even if I get the dev account I'm wondering if it takes a long time before I can use the dev account.
Any help is much appreciated.
Best Answer
Here's the thing, I don't even have to have a Developer Account to deploy my app to my device.
Instead, all I had to do was connect the device to my Mac Mini. When I did that XCode recognizes the device and allows me to deploy and run the app on the device.
I hadn't seen this possibility anywhere, but now that it's possible, it doesn't matter to me so much how long I have to wait for the developer account to be officially set up, since in the wait time I can develop my apps and test them on my locally connected ipad.
As I was writing this answer, I went back to XCode and was building a new app when I suddenly saw the following message:
I couldn't believe it. I was so excited because I could build apps for my local pad and now suddenly it has limited me until I buy a Dev Account. Apple, I'm going to buy a dev acct and I obviously cannot deploy or sell my app to anyone without your permission. Why would you make it this difficult? Ridiculous!!
EDIT Wow. Now I just googled for that and found the following Apple Forum : https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/49304
Someone there mentions that you just have to uninstall other apps from your device and it should work again. I had two other test apps on my device so I uninstalled them and I was able to deploy to my device again.