What exactly does entitlemets.plist do ?

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Published on 2010-04-21T05:59:58Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 6:03 UTC
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To execute my application in iPhone first of all I have to add provisioning profile in to my iPhone. Good. But I don't understand the reason behind adding a entitlements.plist in iphone application in xCode under resources.

  • What does that entitlements.plist file do actually ?
  • Why that .plist file have only single Boolean in it ? (get-task-allow)
  • Can't we add that Boolean variable to application-info.plist ?

I mean, I can't find the reason behind storing a single Boolean variable in separate plist file. Instead application-info.plist already contains many many application settings. Can't we just add this Boolean variable to application-info.plist.

Ok, any way. I know - it won't be possible. Because we have to follow - what apple says. But, here main intention behind all these was

  • "what is the basic need of entitlements.plist ?" or
  • "what is the functionality of entitlements.plist ?"
  • "How provisioning profile, entitlements.plist, application-info.plist & iPhone application compile all together & make verification on iPhone & execute it on iPhone ? "

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