I am developing an app for my customer. They would be enrolling in 'iOS Developer Enterprise Program'
I can develop and test for them under their program and not pay $99 on my end?
When I finish the app for would I deploy it? I understand there needs to be some sort of server at the customer end. Does this server need to be a Mac? or can be windows? Could someone please explain
First of all Enterprise membership is required when you intend to develop app for your internal purpose only. Or when you wanted to distribute your app to your customers without uploading to Apple app store.
Secondly , server side programming is done by the developer. So it may be MAC/Windows.
Let me know.
Yes you can, you just need an invitation from the Team Agent, normally the owner of the account
Usually you deploy by a simple "OTA" (Over the air distribution) using a link, dropbox, but there are some web platform (such as MobileIron) that simplify the process of managing enterprise app distribution.
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Our company is planning to make a ios app by using Enterprise development program.
I guess we can not implement in app purchase on enterprise app, so we want purchase need to be done by our website and after that link will be generated and sent to the user's email, then by using email user can install the app. So my question is that can we implement this.
We have already development program but we want to integrate some other functionality in the app which will not be approved by apple, so we are planning to have Enterprise development program.
I have seen many links but none i found which fulfill my requirement. Any suggestion regarding this is appreciated.
No, this is not allowed. Enterprise program is for distributing applications within your organization. If you give out the application to third parties, your developer program membership will be canceled and the applications will stop working.
Is it possible to deploy an APP to apple app store, but only allow internal company user to download the APP by their own? Thanks.
Yes it is possible with Apple Enterprise Developer Program.
The Apple Developer Enterprise Program allows large organizations to develop and deploy proprietary, internal-use apps to their employees. This program is for specific use cases that require private distribution directly to employees using secure internal systems or through a Mobile Device Management solution.
Just to augment what others have said there. The Enterprise program is what you want. It allows you to distribute your app to as many devices as you like. But as it's not going through the Apple app store, you will have to work out how you want to do it. There are third party servers out there for doing this sort of thing.
You can also simply "roll your own" by simply creating a web page on your LAN with a like to the downloadable app. The Apple documentation has the details on doing that.
Also note one difference between an Enterprise app and a app store app, is that the Enterprise app certificates will need to be renewed every year. Which means that you will need to update the app every year or it will stop working.
Been searching through the forum without much luck.
I have an app on iTunes that help users find the best mobile subscription plan based on their usage - and usage estimated by uploading picture from settings.
The plan is to create an enterprise version, and was wondering if it is possible to distribute the enterprise version through the existing one via a button in the app. (i.e. when clicking it automatically downloads the enterprise app).
Do you know if it is possible, and have you seen others doing the same thing?
And do you know if there are any limitations to the model? (if it is possible)
Enterprise distribution can not be done like that and its own kinda provisioning for distribution, you have to take the member for the enterprise distribution programme and create new binary for distribution.
Enterprise apps are only for in-house app development. For example IBM wants to make an internal mail app that logs into their private servers. Distributing to customers is in breach of the agreement and your account would be removed if you attempted this.
I'm sorry if this question has been asked. I have looked but can not find the question/answer.
I work for a web agency and am now developing IOS Apps for deployment on iPads.
We have the Developer licence from Apple however, reading the blurb it suggests that the Apps need to go through the App Store.
Due to the nature of the Apps (Medical) they can not be on the App Store.
Is this Developer licence using the "Ad Hoc" option enough to deploy the App to clients (not in our company) using a link, or do I need to use the Enterprise Licence?
The Enterprise Licence does say:
You plan to only distribute your iOS apps within your company or organization
The Enterprise Program is intended for developers who wish to develop
and distribute their iOS apps within their company or organisation.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm sorry this is a bit of a random/bitty question.
Thanks in advance.
The ad-hoc distribution is limited to 99 devices and the enterprise limitation is 2k or 5k, not sure. If you want to really distribute your app, but limit its usage, then you have to build an authorization mechanism into your app (like http://www.doccheck.com for doctors). You may use an existing service like this or you can implement your own.
Enterprise distribution, btw, requires the registration of the device in your company. I would not do that as a customer in that case, maybe that is an issue in your case, too.
I have created an application for a company that I need to deploy. The application is for internal use only so it will not be available on the App Store. Do I need a UDID for each individual on whose device the app will be installed? That would be impossible since there are 500 employees. Does anyone have a good documentation or experience on deploying the iOS iPhone application using the Enterprise Developer Program only.
With the Apple ENTERPRISE Developer Program you can NOT distribute an App in the Apple AppStore.
Its purpose is to collaborate an In-House App in your own company.
The Enterprise account does not necessarily need the UDID of your target devices. You can for instance also use a link which remotely installs the app directly on the device.
You can find more details here: https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/
If you are trying to deploy applications to customers/users on a production/long term basis, you can deploy an applications outside the apple store in three ways:
manually via iTunes
directly via iTunes Configuration utility
via weblink (sent via mms, email, webbrowser etc.)
In order to distribute an application this way, the application must have a special corporate signature, and each device must have a matching corporate signature installed manually.
The best overall explanation for the process is available at this link.
If you're just testing on a handful of test devices, then you I would suggest two approaches:
a dev release to a test device follow step by step instructions here.
Or you can use a helper application to deploy a beta release: testflightapp.
You can do distribute your iOS app to only a particular set of people (in your case, your company employee), by following these procedure
Get a apple enterprise developer account
Create a distribution certificate and provisioning profile
(In-House) using your enterprise developer account
Archive the ipa file using the created certificate and
provisioning profile
While saving the ipa, click on the check mark. So, the plist file
is also created.
Host the plist and ipa file in your server
Include a download html file with a href tag with src
"itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https://mydomain.com/apps/MyInHouseApp.plist"
Now when you click on the link from your device the app will get downloaded.
I don't agree with the previous answer. Check this document page 26.
MDM servers can deploy both App Store apps and in-house enterprise
apps to devices over the air. Both paid and free App Store apps can
be managed by an MDM server using Volume Purchase Program (VPP)
managed distribution.
Once you have VPP and Enterprise Developer account you could be able to install apps in the app store or company owned apps into the managed devices.
Further for just deploying the in-house app you could follow this 9 step process.
If you need to deploy to many devices i suggest AirWatch. I've used it many times, it can be a bit frustrating to set up but once you have it working its very nice to have.
Testflight still requires udid and the limit is 100 for 1 year before you can reset. Enterprise deployment is best method for in house apps.