How do I deal with the distribution on a project I've somewhat taken over?

Question

I've recently taken over a project as a freelancer. I have during the development used my own account so I changed most of the debug/release/etc to my own "iPhone developer" etc in the project.

Now, however, it is time to send the update to the actual app store. I've gotten access to the last developers account, I've downloaded the distribution profiles which I assume I need.

The problem now is that, as far as I understand, I need the last developers ".developerprofile" for signing purposes. Or is there some other way? I can't seem to download it from the apple developer account.

This is the first time I am doing any kind of release so I am a bit shaky on the whole provisioning stuff as I've only developed locally and for that xcode manages everything perfectly so far.

Answer 1

If you can you need to get the P12 file from the previous developer - stack overflow

Answer 2

You actually do not need the previous developer's certificate or provisioning profiles in order to continue the project on your own.

It's relatively easy to revoke the previous developer's certificate and provisioning profiles (via the Apple Developer Portal) and recreate new ones on your machine.

Once you log into http://developer.apple.com/ios, look for the "Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles" section.