> On Feb 18, 2015, at 13:45 , Quincey Morris > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2015, at 13:29 , Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I only need to distribute apps to testers and other non-developers (e.g. UX >> designers, product managers) in the company. > > Can you re-iterate what the problem is with distributing to these users as > *external* testers through TestFlight? I only recall comments you’ve made > about *internal* testers.
Here are a few: • Apps distributed to external testers require app store approval. We can't wait that long. These are internal testers, in that they're employees of the company, but they should not have iTunesConnect access. • We sometimes upload a debug version and a release version of the same app, with the same version number. This worked fine in the original TestFlight, but is not allowed in iTunesConnect. • Our debug version sometimes uses private APIs (in particular, Reveal uses IOSurface or something). I can't upload that to iTunesConnect, even though it's only for internal testing; it's removed for the release version. • iTunesConnect uploads take a long time to become available for testing (several minutes? 10? 15?), and require multiple steps spaced out throughout time. With TestFlight's desktop uploader, I could do all the work I needed (upload, set access, write up release notes, release) in a couple of minutes, and hit a button, and be done. With iTunesConnect, I have to upload it, wait many minutes for it to be ready for testing, then visit the website to assign testers. It's very clunky. -- Rick Mann [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
