If it is your private account, you should be listed as Agent.

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The signing of the application binary can be a real brain teaser.

While there is no way around it, Microsoft is on a mission to automate it as much as possible.

Especially the first time, this can be daunting to say the least.

I know why it needs to be done, I see why it is important, but each time I forget how to do it and it takes me too long to set it up for my new app.

Since Apple is unlikely to respond to any of the requests of Microsoft, we cant get around to how Apple has arranged all of this.

But what can be done is automate as much as possible in a way that we, as developers, do not have to be bothered with any of this anymore.

I will assume that the Apple Developer account youre using is your own, or at least that you will have the Agent role, which gives you all the necessary rights to generate certificates and provisioning profiles.

If you are working for a company or are part of a team, check to see if you have the required permissions.

Fastlane actually consists of multiple solutions, but one of them is code signing and that is what we will focus on here.

Besides code signing, you can also use it to generate app screenshots, distribute beta versions and also deploy to the actual app stores.

Since the tools are open-sourced on Github, you can actually see what is going on or maybe even contribute.

A prerequisite is to have Xcode installed, but since were all Xamarin developers here, I will assume you already did.

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One is through Homebrew, the other one is to download the tools through the Fastlane website.

If you know what Homebrew is and have set it up on your machine, simply run brew cask install fastlane.

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You will probably get a warning from Mac OS that you cant run this code.

After you did, a Terminal window will pop up and start installing as seen in the screenshot below.

If there is no output, run export PATHHOME.fastlanebin:PATH and check the which command again.

Under the Publishing node, find the Apple Developer Accounts.

Through this button, you can add your Apple developer account to Visual Studio, and ultimately Fastlane.

Enter your credentials and hit the Sign In button to add your account.

The account details should pop up on the right side, after it was successfully added.

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