Research if we can distribute the prebuilt .ipa/.app

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Currently, we're building the iOS AutomatorServer (AutomatorServer/ios) at every patrol drive, which adds some overhead (usually a few up to 10-20 seconds). In the ideal case, we should get rid of this and just download prebuilt .ipa or .app (I always forget which one is for what).

To keep in mind:

• simulator binaries need to be distributed as x86_64 and arm64e
• physical iOS devices require the binary to be signed

[bartekpacia]

Current problem: GitHub Actions don't support running macOS VMs on Apple Silicon, so we can only build x86_64 artifact for a simulator, which when run on a simulator on Apple Silicon mac, only shows black screen and/or crashes (just random, unpredictable behavior).

Maybe I can work around it by making Xcode generate a fat binary.

[bartekpacia]

Idea
We could just distribute unsigned .app, and then tell our users to codesign it manually. If we give good instructions, it should be a quite painless process.

Maybe with a tool like codesign?

[bartekpacia]

Appium apparently doesn't codesign their binaries:

• https://github.com/appium/WebDriverAgent/blob/master/.github/workflows/publish.js.yml

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