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feraco
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06/03/13 10:56 AM (12 years ago)

Distribution of apps outside appstore

Hello I have never done this before and would appreciate advice on distributing apps outside the appstore. If I distribute apps through adhoc I can only distribute to 100 devices? What is another way to distribute IOS apps outside the appstore?
 
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06/03/13 11:34 AM (12 years ago)
You can use something like Test Flight to distribute your apps, but I think that's more for testing than anything else. Aside from the AdHoc method, you'd need to have people jailbreak their phones for getting your app outside of iTunes. I can't think of many reasons you wouldn't want to go through iTunes as a standard practice. Mark
 
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06/03/13 12:01 PM (12 years ago)
I have a very simple app for a client that may not be approved by the appstore. It is more for employees referencing info. I researched a method called enterprise distribution. I found this in a stackovertflow forum. Ive never used this before. Has anyone ever used this before? Enterprise - No device limit, devices do not need to explicitly added to provisions. In effect, these builds will run on any device; the caveat, you are not legally allowed to distribute these builds to anyone outside your company.
 
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06/03/13 02:13 PM (12 years ago)
I 'think' Niraj has an enterprise account, not sure... Basically it's for companies like Hewlett Packard or someone who has thousands of company devices. Short of that, could you not get the company to obtain a regular apple developer account and use their 100 devices for the app? Cheers! -- Smug
 
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06/03/13 02:16 PM (12 years ago)
I can do that but what if they want more than 100 devices?
 
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06/03/13 02:20 PM (12 years ago)
Someone better get another account ;) Or you need to bribe the reviewers, lol! I'm not sure of the complete situation. The Enterprise membership is along the lines of $200-300 a year. If it works for you, then it may be a viable option. I'm usually working with smaller companies that won't ever need 100 internal devices. Cheers! -- Smug
 
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06/03/13 02:23 PM (12 years ago)
Gotcha! Here the link - https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/ Ive never done enterprise before. Its always fun to start something new. Change is good!!!
 
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06/03/13 02:32 PM (12 years ago)
Hello @feraco Stackoverflow is a good forum for technology issues - there is a lot of useful information to be found there (often over my head). But the answer about the enterprise licences sounds about right to me. I guess Apple don't want to see apps being distributed outside the app store unless it is for a specific business and then it is distrubted internally. I believe the way it works is that your client would purchase an enterprise licence in their name and you would codesign the app using it.
 
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06/03/13 02:35 PM (12 years ago)
Got it! This is what I will use. Thanks for the advice guys!
 

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