Request for Updated WDA .ipa

[aykutalpp]

Hello everyone,

I’m currently encountering the same issue mentioned here: appium/appium#20239
I’ve downloaded the WDA.ipa, but it's outdated—I'm in need of a newer version.

Since I don’t have an Apple Developer account, I’m unable to build a fresh WDA.ipa myself. Could someone please upload or update the WDA.ipa on https://devicefarm.org/ios-signing

Thank you in advance for your help!

[saikrishna321]

@aykutalpp if u don't have a developer account how will you resign?

[aykutalpp]

@saikrishna321 Thanks for your question.
Even without a paid Apple Developer account, it's possible to resign an .ipa using a free Apple account, but the provisioning profile and signing certificate will only be valid for 7 days.

[saikrishna321]

appium plugin run device-farm prepare-wda

[attarddb-lumin]

While the posting of this command is very helpful (solved the same issue aykutalpp was facing regarding appium/appium#20239), it would also be helpful to have the documentation here, under the "Manual Control of Devices for iOS real device", include this command as a more stable solution to build the latest WDA.ipa using your installed xcode version, rather than relying on a static, outdated file that may be incompatible.

Worth noting that I attempted to build the updated WDA.ipa file in Xcode by navigating to the project root and running:
appium driver run xcuitest open-wda

Then manually zipped the signed file into an .ipa file, loaded it to the farm server as "wda-resign.ipa" and this unfortunately did not work. I spent the day working through issues encountered with this outdated, posted WDA.ipa file. A short blurb stating that the file may be outdated and to prepare/sign a new file, please run:
appium plugin run device-farm prepare-wda

would be icing on the cake. Thank you so much for all you guys do. This thread saved me!