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This document is written for AIR application developers who do not want their applications to be tracked as AIR applications on the iOS App Store. All AIR iOS applications have application metadata inserted as png metadata into the application icons. This article describes the steps to remove the metadata and then repackage the application.

Mac OS 10.5 or later
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Package your IPA with ADT as usual.

Unzip your IPA with the command (this step creates the payload):

unzip path/to/myapp.ipa

Open the Payload folder in the Finder. Look for a single file with the name of your app. Right-click it and select Show Package Contents. A finder window opens containing the contents of your app. This folder is your application folder.

In your application folder, locate the following files. These files are the icons with the metadata that you are going to remove. It's possible that your system doesn't have all these files, depending on which icons you specified in your application descriptor.

Icon.png
Icon-Large.png
Icon-Small.png
Icon-Small-50.png
Icon@2x.png

Remove the metadata from each of the above PNG files. You can find a simple tool for removing the metadata at http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/. Upload your PNG files and download the results. It removes the metadata along with other optimizations. If you don' t like that tool, a search for "png remove metadata" returns a number of choices to accomplish the same result.

Replace the png in the application folder with the modified version produced in the above step. Be sure to keep the filenames the same.

Import your Apple code signing certificate into the keychain. For instructions, see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1779.html

Resign your application by running this command from the terminal:

codesign -f -s "<name of your certificate>" Payload/myapp.ipa

For example, "name of your certificate" could be "iPhone Developer: Your Name."

Back in the Finder, right-click the Payload folder and select Compress Payload to create a zip file called Payload.zip. That zip file is a valid iPhone app, ready for upload.

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