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Enterprise help
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 12:17 am
by teacherguy
Well, after using my custom apps with my students for several years, my district has ponied up the money for an Enterprise account with Apple.
I am struggling to understand how to re-prepare my apps. Currently I used my individual developer account to register my classroom iPads as development devices. Now of course I need to be able to re-build the app with new certificates/provisioning profiles so the app can be distributed to any device in the district.
I am unsure how to approach this within LiveCode. Has anyone done this recently?
Re: Enterprise help
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 12:35 am
by Simon
Hi teacherguy,
I think in your situation you should go with testFlight.
I've only used the old;
https://testflightapp.com/
There is the new stuff from Apple directly, under the same name, but I'm not up to speed on that.
It's pretty simple you send an email asking for users to join from testFlight.
They user accepts and install a small testflight app.
You get a request to allow the user to join, add the user in.
The users is prompted to download the app.
You get a lot of information about the users which is cool.
I'm about to post how you do all this from your own sever, if interested I'll link to the post.
Simon
Re: Enterprise help
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 12:45 am
by teacherguy
Well, this would not be for testing, this is for distributing a finished app to hundreds of iPads
Re: Enterprise help
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 12:56 am
by Simon
I take it you don't want to use the App store?
Completed app or not it will make for easy traceable distribution.
or again host it yourself.
Simon
Edit; Here are the instructions for your own website;
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=22832
Re: Enterprise help
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:41 pm
by jacque
As I understand it (take this with a grain of salt) an enterprise certificate allows you to distribute the app from a private server without going through the App Store. So the only difference between using your developer account and the enterprise one is which certificate you choose in standalone settings before you do the build. After that you should be able to upload the app to the school server using the same technique you used before, only you won't have to register any students as testers individually.