Good day for MonsterCache. Kent had an intern, Joshua, helping him today and they were asking me some MonsterCache questions. That gave me the extra little motivation I needed to try getting an iOS version to them. Even though I was able to get the iOS version running on my parents' phones already, that was much easier because I could hook their phones to my computer. That's called Developer Provisioning (I think).
Kent and Josh are in Colorado and I'm in Kansas, so to get the app to them, I had to email it along with a provisioning profile. That's called Distribution Provisioning (I think). It's all quite confusing. You have to make these special Provisioning Profiles for each case. Besides the Developer Profile and Distribution (also called Ad Hoc) profile, XCode makes a Team Profile for you. That may be the same as the Developer one. I don't know.
Anyway, the first time I built and signed the archive file for the app and sent to Kent, he tried installing and it failed. So I read a bit and figured I'd used the wrong profile. So I downloaded all the profiles from my Developer account to XCode and tried again. Turns out I hadn't downloaded the Ad Hoc profile the first time, so I hadn't signed with it either. Once I had it and signed it with the Ad Hoc, then I sent to Kent and it worked! Since I was happy to have figured that out, I posted an answer about it on StackOverflow.
Oh, and I got the iOS In-App Purchasing working last weekend, so now things are VERY CLOSE! Just need to do a few more styling things. And its great that Kent and Joshua have the app now, and Matt's coworker, Reed, is beta testing on Android. Very exciting.
Blog about the development of Monster Cache, a virtual geocaching game for Android and iPhone platforms
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