Uploading to Itunes - Invalid type for UIDeviceFamily value

Report · Oct 06, 2016

I uploaded an IPA file today. Saw this error the first time ?!

What i know i dont have enabled Family sharing at Itunes connect.

Please help.

This is the norig Mail from Apple

Dear developer,

We have discovered one or more issues with your recent delivery for "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX". Your delivery was successful, but you may wish to correct the following issues in your next delivery:

Invalid type for UIDeviceFamily value - Values for UIDeviceFamily are expected to be integers.

After you’ve corrected the issues, you can use Xcode or Application Loader to upload a new binary to iTunes Connect.

Regards,

The App Store team

Report · Oct 21, 2016

@App runner KG : what's the problem exactly ?

Report · Oct 21, 2016

The distribution certificate is not accepted by the program. I get an error message, but the certificate is ok. Tried with developer certificate and this works, but can't send to AppStore with this.

Report · Oct 21, 2016

To ElsaPrieto

I am trying your suggestion to modify the info.plist, but I am confused regarding the following suggestion:

"- change the UIDeviceFamily item0/1 type to Number"

Here is how my info.plist reads:

<key>UIDeviceFamily</key>

<array>

</array>

What should I change?

Report · Oct 21, 2016

If you open the file with XCode you only have to change the type to Number. If you're opening the file with a text editor, here is what it should look like:

<key>UIDeviceFamily</key>

<array>

</array>

Report · Oct 21, 2016

Hi Elsa,

Thanks for the clarification!

Report · Oct 21, 2016

This seems wrong. The variable type that it's expecting is Number, not Integer. You can examine IPA files from the App Store, and see that the value is normally Number.

<key>UIDeviceFamily</key>

<array>

</array>

might work I suppose. But the whole thing only seems to be a problem for people using Test Flight, and even then some have succeeded. Submissions to the App Store are getting through ok, the error is only a warning.

Report · Oct 21, 2016

That's a copy-and-paste of the plist XCode saved after changing the type to Number. I submitted a build yesterday with this plist without any warning. It's coherent with the warning that says "Values for UIDeviceFamily are expected to be integers."

The error should only be a warning, but in my case Itunes Connect didn't let me chose the build to submit for the update.

Report · Oct 25, 2016

It seems that XCode has also switched to using integer, we just recently did a sticker pack with the newest XCode and the Info.plist it generated has integer here instead of number. Since XCode is now using integer, that's probably what they're expecting for all new submissions and why it's sending the warning message.

Report · Oct 26, 2016

Is there a fix for this yet?

I'm currently unable to use TestFlight on the iPad even with the plist settings.

(I had plist settings for TestFlight that have been working for months and allowed beta testing, but its no longer working with those settings)

Also, I'm not sure if its related, but I can't seem to access HTTPS URL's either

I've had to revert back to using HTTP URLS and I also had to whitelist the URLs of our servers that our app contacts.

e.g.

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>

<dict>

<key>NSExceptionDomains</key>

<dict>

<key>localhost</key>

<dict>

<key>NSTemporaryExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads</key>

<true/>

</dict>

<key>www.mysite.com/key>

<dict>

<key>NSTemporaryExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads</key>

<true/>

</dict>

Report · Oct 29, 2016

The AIR 24 beta that has been posted does now use integers for UIDeviceFamily. Unfortunately, the Mac package is still the AIR 23 one. I've asked for that to be fixed.

Report · Oct 30, 2016

I heard back from Adobe, they know they have to fix the Mac package link. It isn't fixed yet.

Report · Oct 30, 2016

The Mac version is fixed now. It works differently than before. Previously you would download the archive and expand it as a folder, which you could immediately point Animate to. Now it downloads a disk image file, so you have to create a folder and copy the files over. Unless you're willing to always have the disk image mounted.

Report · Oct 30, 2016

Just a note for anyone else having to hand edit their XXXX-app.xml file.

I had to change the <application> tag to

Also

I tried changing

<key>UIDeviceFamily</key><array><string>2</string></array><key>I

to

<key>UIDeviceFamily</key><array><integer>2</integer></array><key>

But this causes an error.

I presume the SDK is converting these strings into "integers" in the IPA file, but I've not had chance to upload to iTunes to confirm this, as I have some other issues with my App I have to fix (which are unrelated to this problem)

PPS.

I have to hand edit my XXXX-app.xml file, as I have some custom configs including access a local web server which is not https, and also enabling Beta testing (Testflight), and AFIK there isnt a UI for any of this in Adobe Animate CC2015.2 which I'm using.

Report · Oct 31, 2016

rogerc96594825,

I just "unzipped" a test ipa exported from Adobe Animate, and you're right - the sdk converts the strings into integers

Report · Oct 21, 2016

THIS IS STILL AN ISSUE! I tried updating a App this morning and still received the error message. Please get this fixed right away.

Report · Oct 31, 2016

A hotfix in AIR 23 SDK would be nice for people (like me) who don't want to publish with beta versions. Thanks!

Report · Oct 31, 2016

Hello Everyone,

This issue has been fixed in AIR 24 beta Download Adobe AIR 24 Beta - Adobe Labs

The AIR sdk now changes string from application descriptor to integer in Info.plist in the ipa.

Thanks,

Krati | Adobe AIR Engineering

Report · Oct 31, 2016

Can you say anything about the App Thinning problems have also seen?

Report · Nov 01, 2016

Krgupta,

The AIR 24 SDK beta for flex developers is now a DMG file versus the TAR archive. How do you handle an overlay of the AIR 24 SDK beta over an existing Apache Flex SDK?

The previously released documentation on AIR SDK overlay do not seem to work with the DMG version on Mac. Overlay results in an invalid Flex SDK with loading into Flash Builder 4.7.

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

Report · Nov 01, 2016

If you make a folder and copy the AIR 24 files into it, it's then the same situation as if you had decompressed the TAR file.

Report · Nov 01, 2016

Thanks you for the reply Colin!

You are correct, I ended up manually doing a delete/replace of the AIR SDK files in the Apache Flex SDK folder using what was supplied in the DMG file from Adobe Labs. The resulting Apache Flex 4.15.0 SDK with AIR 24 Beta now loads into Flash Builder 4.7 without issue. For some reason doing a copy and replace over the old files on Mac OS X was not working as expected.

Report · Nov 07, 2016

WARNING ITMS-90686:　"Invalid type for UIDeviceFamily value.Values for UIDeviceFamily are expected to be integers."

I can't sale My APP.

Report · Nov 07, 2016

See my reply to the other post you made, about getting using AIR 24 instead of AIR 23.