Hi everybody, and thanks to those of you who checked out our Titanium For New Developers webinar this morning. Just wanted to quickly share the slides from this morning’s presentation, and invite you to join us tomorrow morning when we talk about the new features available in our 1.4 release. Here you go…

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There have been a few questions around how to package for distribution for iOS starting with Titanium SDK 1.4. Apple has changed the requirement on how you package and submit your application to iTunes connect. You can no longer use the web-based portal to upload your application.

I thought I’d explain the steps on how to package and distribute with some screenshot walk throughs.

In Titanium, you’ll do the normal package for distribution step, selecting your distribution profile.

NOTE: I have circled the “Select Distribution Location” since this is no longer required. In 1.4 SDK, we ignore this value. We didn’t want to rev Titanium Developer just to remove this field and to keep in backwards compatible. However, you will still need to enter a value for this field. In a future release of Developer, we’ll improve this.

After packaging, we’ll automatically start Xcode Organizer. Select the “Archived Applications” on the left menu and you should see your Application with a package date.

If you select the date, you will be able to enable the buttons at the bottom.

First step, you’ll want to validate your application. This will actually validate your application with Apple prior to submission and let them perform some pre-flight checks.

You’ll need to login to iTunes connect before you can validate. (The first time, you’re credentials will be empty. Subsequent times, if you check “Remember my…” if we remember).

After successful login, you’ll need to choose the appropriate application and profile. IMPORTANT STEP: If you don’t have an application setup in iTunes Connect (on the website), these subsequent steps SILENTLY FAIL.

NOTE: Organizer gives no visual clues to as what’s happening. The UI will lock-up while it runs network operations and when it fails, it simply does nothing and you have no idea. The biggest problem I’ve encountered is when someone doesn’t actually have an application setup (see above).

Choose your app and profile and you should see this alert result (after a few seconds to minute):

Since you’re building with Titanium, everyone should work. However, we’ve seen a few issues mainly related to the wrong size icon when validating. Apple has gotten more strict on icon sizes, etc.

To submit your application, click the “Submit Application to iTunes Connect..” button. BEWARE: when you do this, it will immediately upload your app and submit it for approval (assuming that your application details are setup).

At this point, your application should be submitted and in the queue for approval.

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