So, why would you want to convert a ZIP file to an IPA file? Here are a few scenarios:
If you aren't comfortable rearranging folders or using the command line, there are automated scripts and tools available online that claim to handle the conversion.
# Re-zip with correct method (new: zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED with preserve permissions) with zipfile.ZipFile(output_path, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) as ipa_file: for root, dirs, files in os.walk("temp_folder"): for file in files: file_path = os.path.join(root, file) arcname = os.path.relpath(file_path, "temp_folder") ipa_file.write(file_path, arcname)