Im curious to know whether apple developer account ($99/ year) facilitates to create adhoc provisioning profiles.
The scenario behind is that, i want to distribute my app among testers before submitting to the App Store.
Thanks in advance.
Yes. https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/distribute.html
Ad Hoc Distribution
With Ad Hoc distribution, you can share your app
with up to 100 iOS devices via email or your server.
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Recently i got myself into tring to sign and distribute an internal ios application using a developer subscription (Ad Hoc).
So my final solution after researching was creating a page which has a link used to install the profile and a link to trigger the .ipa installation.
Is there a way to distribute the .ipa file only using the Ad Hoc distribution profile ?
If your account is apple developer account, you can create .ipa with AdHoc provisioning profile. And you can use www.diawi.com to distribute it to internal testers.
But you need to first register all the device's UDID to the development profile. You can add max 100 devices.
You can also use apple enterprise account, if you are developing it for internal use only. In that case you can directly give app to users without registering UDID of the devices.
I work in an organization which have an Apple enterprise provisioning profile.
We are developing an iOS application that makes use of Apple Push Notifications, and would like to use TestFlight to distribute it to many users in the organizations without having to register their device ids in TestFlight.
Can we use an enterprise wildcard provisioning profile to distribute via TestFlight an application that uses Apple Push Notifications?
Or can we use an explicit provisioning profile to distribute the app via TestFlight without having to register those employees devices in TestFlight beforehand?
Thanks in advance,
Ido
It should work!
What about Enterprise Apps?
If you are registered with Apple's Enterprise Program and are making Enterprise Apps, no worries...TestFlight works with those too. TestFlight fully supports Enterprise Apps and it works much like Ad Hoc apps for distribution. Just upload an Enterprise signed app and distribute to your team and only approved members of your team will have access to the application for installation.
Source: http://help.testflightapp.com/customer/portal/articles/402851-testflight-faq
If you have an Enterprise Distribution profile, there is no need to use testflight any more. You can just put it anywhere on the internet and let users download it.
Registering devices is needed only for development profiles. There are no distribution wildcard profiles.
I have two developer accounts with Apple.
A personal developer account and a corporate account via the company I work for.
I would like to be able to deploy apps that I write on my own using the personal account and deploy apps using the corporate account on to the same iPad - Can that be done?
Does provisioning tie the iOS device to a particular developer account?
Does provisioning tie the iOS device to a particular developer
account?
No it doesn't.
From Apple Documents:
A development provisioning profile uniquely ties developers and
devices to a development team. A provisioning profile is valid for one
year. A device can be added to multiple provisioning profiles.
I am new in iPhone development. I have a little idea about app_store distribution. My questions are
what is the need for ad hoc distribution in ios application distribution?
2)Is any other license needed for ad hoc distribution from Apple?
if anybody knows, please help me. Thanks in advance.
Ad-Hoc Distribution:
Distribution builds of an app, which can be installed on 100 devices designated by the developer on his provisioning portal. The distribution mechanism can be websites, mails or OTA. These type of builds are generally for beta testing or demos.
App-store Distribution:
Distribution builds that are intended for general public(for sale). The distribution mechanism is App store only.
Ad Hoc distribution allows you to share your application with up to 100 iPhone, iPad or iPod touch users, and to distribute your application through email or by posting it to a web site or server.
App Store provisioning profiles do not allow for a distribution built application to be installed on an Apple device. To install your distribution ready application on a device, you must create an Ad Hoc provisioning profile.
App Store distribution allows you to post your application in Apple Store.
I am facing some issues related with iOS Developer program and iOS Enterprise Program. One of my client ask me to suggest one of them. Please answer my questions related to iOS Enterprise Program-
If i purchase an iOS Enterprise account so when it is available for in-house application distribution?
How many device i have on which i can install my app?
Do i need UDID of all devices?
What if i want to add some new devices?
If it is same Ad-hoc distribution the what is the expiry date of Ad-hoc certificate?
Thanks
As soon as you sign the contracts and make the purchase and Apple verifies all the information, you can create your distribution certificate, provisioning profile and then sign your app with the certificate, and distribute your app with the profile.
There is no limit to the number of devices.
No, you do not need to get the UDID's of the devices for Enterprise distribution.
Just send the app and the distribution provisioning profile to the user who has the new device.
The certificate is used to sign the app - to my knowledge there is not an "ad-hoc" vs. "distribution" certificate.
Hy Rayfleck,
I'm not sure about that..
Reading this post: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Has-anyone-had-experience-iOS-72283.S.52864455
made me realize that:
Enterprise license can do 2 different kind of release:
release for internal distribution
release for a third party distribution
The internal distribution has no limit of devices
The third party distribution is limited to only 100 devices..