Enterprise In-House App distribution

You definitely don’t!

You can distribute the app via

  • In-House Distribution: Building with that profile will create an .ipa and a .plist file. You put that on a website that is protected via basic authentication. Put a link to the plist file on the site in the below format. Then you can just browse to that site with any ios-device, type in your credentials, click on the link and install the app.
<a href="itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=http://myDomain.de/path/to/the/MyApp-Version.plist">Download my cool App!</a>
  • Ad-Hoc Distribution (Also possible with Developer Program for Beta-Testing up to 100 devices): Here you use device-ids. You build the app and get an .ipa and a .mobileprovision file (a certificate needed to install the app). You send those 2 files to a customer and he installs it via itunes (not sure if he can open it directly from the mail on the device).

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