I finally got around to looking into Mac & iOS development using Xamarin Studio. I’m sure there will be a series of blog posts on my experiences using the tools but for now, let’s look at the steps required to add a device to your account on the apple developer portal.

We need to add devices to allow us to provision profiles etc. – I’ll be honest, at this time I know very little about the ways of developing iOS apps. so this is definitely a learning process.

Note: These are the manual steps. I read that you can do this from XCode but I couldn’t seem to see the options, if I get that working I’ll create a post on that process, but for now this is the manual process.

• Firstly, connect the device you want to add to your computer
• Run iTunes
• In iTunes click on the device
• If you’ve not connected the device to the computer you will be asked to trust the computer on the device, obviously do so
• Click on the serial number so it changes to show the UDID of the device
• Right mouse click on this and copy the UDID
• Log into your account on https://developer.apple.com
• Select Member Center
• Select Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
• Select Devices under the iOS Apps section
• To the right of the iOS Devices heading, click the + button
• Put something meaningful to you as the name of the device, i.e. iPad Air or even Mark’s iPad Air or whatever
• Paste the UDID we copied earlier into the UDID field
• Click the Continue button
• You should now see the Review and register page, click Register if you’re happy with the name etc.

Finally press the Done button on the Registration complete page and you’re done

You should now see a list of all the iOS devices you’ve registered.