'Can I use Transporter to upload Flutter iOS apps to App Store console?

I got into mobile development through Flutter, so all my contact with native platforms and techs comes from that.

So far I've been distributing my Flutter apps as the doc says, opening the build/ios/archive/Runner.xcarchive package with Xcode and validating/distributing it.

I found fastlane, but before getting into it, is there a way to use Transporter to upload iOS apps to Apple Store console? It does not recognize the .xcarchive file with it, I suspect I have to do something else before but I could not find what

Thank you!



Solution 1:[1]

Yes, I just did since brilliant xCode got stuck consistently while trying to upload the app, I switched to Transporter:

  1. Run "flutter build ios --release"

  2. Copy the generate /build/ios/iphoneos/YourApp.app file to a newly created folder named "Payload"

  3. Compress the folder (right click - compress)

  4. rename the compressed file to have a ".ipa" instead of a ".zip"

  5. upload it using transporter

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