2015-06-19 QuickLook for mobileprovision files

Craig Hockenberry wrote a Quick Look plug-in for .mobileprovision files (i.e. Provisioning Profiles). Hugely useful, because you can just select a provisioning profile and press space in Finder to see which UDIDs (devices) are included.

To debug provisioning profiles, don't let Xcode manage them. Instead when you need to run your app on a new device, take the following steps:

• In the Member Center, go to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
• Add the device for this particular App ID
• Generate either a development or a distribution profile and download it manually
• Use the above Quick Look plugin to verify that the downloaded profile does indeed contain the UDID of the new device
• Double-click the new .mobileprovisioning file
• Check with the terminal that it is now located in ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles

Now go to Xcode. Since version 6, you can view provisioning profiles by going to menu Xcode -> Preferences. In the Accounts tab, select your Apple ID on the left, select your team on the right and click View Details. The new profile should be there, or else you can click the refresh button. The expiration column should show the date as exactly one year later.

If you want the .ipa file, check out this answer on StackOverflow.