Launch IPA file after installed on device

Question

I managed to install applications in the IPA format on (non jailbroken) iOS devices from my terminal using libimobiledevice. Unfortunately this only takes me halfway. Now I need to start the newly installed application automatically as a part of our nightly build job for testing purposes.

All information is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I suggest use idevicedebug from the libimobiledevice library. https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.

Command goes like: idevicedebug run [APP_ID]. Usually, you would have to run ideviceinstaller -l first to get the APP_ID value before running idevicedebug.

This worked for me, hope it does with you too.

Answer 2

If you don't mind using another utility (which depends on libimobiledevice):

Crackleware iDevice App Runner (GitHub)