This is probably a dumb question... I just want to make sure I am not doubling up here. Once I am done with my ionic code, I run ionic build --release from the command line. Then, in Xcode I run clean, then build, then archive.
Question - if I am archiving do I need to run build first? It almost looks like Xcode is building the project again as part of the archiving process.
It looks like your process is good. But, you're right, you don't need to build first, you can archive directly.