Generate iOS app using RoboHelp (2019 release)

In the authoring window of your project, click the Quick Generate icon  in the upper-right corner of the standard toolbar.

Select a Mobile app output preset in the Quick Generate dialog box. To configure the settings, do one of the following:

• Click the Edit Settings icon  in the Quick Generate dialog box.
• Click the Output tab at the left side of the Standard toolbar.

The Output view opens.

In the Output toolbar, click Output Presets. In the Output Presets panel, do one of the following:

• Double-click the desired Mobile app output preset.
• Click the  icon next to the desired output preset and select Edit.

Configure the output preset. See Configure a Mobile app output preset for details.

In the Signing Key tab of the configuration settings, select Generate iOS App and specify the following:

Specify the Digital certificate. For details on how to create a Digital certificate, see Create Digital certificate.

Password of digital certificate.

For details, see Generate a certificate signing request.

This contains details of the registered testing device. Until the APP is not posted on the App store, it can be installed only on registered testing devices.

For details, see Generate provisioning profile (Mobile provision).

To save your settings, click the Save icon  in the upper-left corner of the standard toolbar in the Output view.

Click the Generate Preset icon  in the Output Presets panel. 

You can then view a progress bar next to the selected output preset in the Output Presets panel. Once the output generation is complete, a Success dialog box is visible at the lower-right corner of the screen. 

Once the app is generated scan the QR code on the registered device for testing. This will download and install the app on the device.

Download and install OpenSSL on your Windows computer from the following location: 

http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html

Download and install Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables files that are listed on the Open SSL download page. 

After the installation is complete, restart the computer.

Open a Windows command session, and ensure that your current working directory is the OpenSSL bin directory. For example: c:\OpenSSL\bin\

Create the private key by entering the following in the command line:

openssl genrsa -out <key file name> <encryption bit level>

For example, to create a private key name mykey with 2048 encryption bit level:

openssl genrsa -out mykey.key 2048

Create the CSR file by entering the following in the command line:

openssl req -new -key mykey.key -out CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest  -subj "/emailAddress=<your email address>, CN=<certificate name>, C=<country code>"

For example, to create a CSR file with email myemail.@mydomain.com, certificate name My Certificate and country code US:

openssl req -new -key mykey.key -out CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest  -subj "/emailAddress=myemail.@mydomain.com, CN=My Certificate , C=US"

You will be prompted for a password.

Keep a note of this password. This is your Certificate Password that you will provide in the Signing Key tab in the mobile app output preset configuration settings.

To convert the .cer file to a .pem file, run the following command-line statement from the OpenSSL bin directory:

openssl x509 -in -inform DER -out -outform PEM

For example:

openssl x509 -in “C:\RHAPP\iOS_development.cer” -inform DER -out “C:\RHAPP\iOS_development.PEM” -outform PEM

You can now generate a valid P12 file, based on the key and the PEM version of the iPhone developer certificate:

openssl pkcs12 -export -inkey “mykey.key” -in -out

For example:

openssl pkcs12 -export -inkey mykey.key –in “C:\RHAPP\iOS_development.PEM” -out “C:\RHAPP\iOS_development.P12”

The mykey.key is created during the Generating Certificate signing request procedure described above.