Distribute iPhone app to testers?

Question

I am working on my iphone app and now I want to send my app to my testers. But how should I send it to them ? Plus, they don't have an Xcode. Is it necessary?

Answer 1

Take a look at Test Flight. We are currently using it and it offers a lot of great tools and is very easy to set up.

testflightapp.com

It distributes it adhoc and then you can push it directly to the testers and allows you to see install statuses. Time spent and other analytic tools.

To answer your other questions. The don't need Xcode. They just need to have their UDID registered on your apple account. They will get sent an email that will ask to download the latest release. The app then installs over the air.

Answer 2

Since iOS 4.0, users have been able to install Ad-Hoc apps over the air. Please note you're required to get the testers' device UDIDs and add them to your device list on developer.apple.com and to the app's the provisioning profile.

You can host the IPA yourself, but I would recommend using TestFlightApp.com.

Macworld wrote a decent article about the gist of it, and TestFlight is fairly straightforward to use, especially since it allows you to send an email or link to your testers and collect the needed UDID from them.