How to create valid .app or .zip archive for automating iOS with Appium?

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The easiest way I've found to make this work is to:

Build and run the app for the simulator in xcode.
Go to Products in the left-hand nav in Xcode and control-click (right-click) on YourApp.app and Select Show In Finder. (This is the .app you want to use)
If you want a .zip just control-click (right-click) on the app and Select "Compress YourApp.app"

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Build you project.
Click on the organizer icon (top right).
Click on the arrow next the "Derived Data" directory (something like ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/YouApp-ajsnkjasngjkans).
Finder will open in the derived data directory, go to /Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator.
There is, you found your .app file. Point appium to it and enjoy.

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Also you van build app in terminal:

xcodebuild VALID_ARCHS="i386" -sdk iphonesimulator -configuration your_configuration -target your_target

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