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Does anyone understand how this service works? It would be nice to have an FAQ page on the website or something...

gharbad 16y ago
It looks like all real information about what the service does is under the blog.. From what I can gather, it allows you to manage beta/prebeta (free) access to the apps you are currently developing for iOS.
cmelbye 16y ago
If you're referring to the actual process of installing apps over-the-air, see this article explaining it: http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2010/12/apple-best-kept-secret-how-to-do-ad-hoc-installs.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2010/12/apple-best-kept-s...
- solipsist 16y ago
  Wow! This just rocked my world. Being an iOS developer for a few years now, this will definitely come in handy. Thanks!
- beej71 16y ago
  We've been using this process (rolled our own) for a couple months and I very highly recommend it, whether you build it yourself or use this TestFlight thing. Your testers will love you.
kmfrk 16y ago
Weird that this hasn't been submitted before. The process (and purpose): You create 1. One or several team groups 2. One or several user groups You can then proceed to push pre-release builds to TestFlight and have specific groups of users (press, volunteers, friends, iPod/iPhone 3G/3GS/4) try the build, before it's sent to the App Store. Sending a release to the App Store before testing it with a larger group of users can be pretty catastrophic. As a bonus, you basically drag and drop your .ipa(?) file to the browser, and TestFlight does the rest. The users can then proceed to get the build through TestFlight's HTML5 app. Before, as I understand, the alternative was to send your app files to people and have them import it in iTunes.
psm42 16y ago
Or, if you have an iPhone (or iPad or iPod touch) running iOS 4.0+, you can try it out by becoming a beta tester for my app, [Split Decision](http://testflightapp.com/join/d9566ad38cbafb7444b0cf6c8b4aa0ad-OTM2/ http://testflightapp.com/join/d9566ad38cbafb7444b0cf6c8b4aa0...).

It looks like all real information about what the service does is under the blog.. From what I can gather, it allows you to manage beta/prebeta (free) access to the apps you are currently developing for iOS.

cmelbye 16y ago

If you're referring to the actual process of installing apps over-the-air, see this article explaining it: http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2010/12/apple-best-kept-secret-how-to-do-ad-hoc-installs.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2010/12/apple-best-kept-s...

solipsist 16y ago
Wow! This just rocked my world. Being an iOS developer for a few years now, this will definitely come in handy. Thanks!
beej71 16y ago
We've been using this process (rolled our own) for a couple months and I very highly recommend it, whether you build it yourself or use this TestFlight thing. Your testers will love you.

kmfrk 16y ago

Weird that this hasn't been submitted before. The process (and purpose): You create 1. One or several team groups 2. One or several user groups You can then proceed to push pre-release builds to TestFlight and have specific groups of users (press, volunteers, friends, iPod/iPhone 3G/3GS/4) try the build, before it's sent to the App Store. Sending a release to the App Store before testing it with a larger group of users can be pretty catastrophic. As a bonus, you basically drag and drop your .ipa(?) file to the browser, and TestFlight does the rest. The users can then proceed to get the build through TestFlight's HTML5 app. Before, as I understand, the alternative was to send your app files to people and have them import it in iTunes.

psm42 16y ago

Or, if you have an iPhone (or iPad or iPod touch) running iOS 4.0+, you can try it out by becoming a beta tester for my app, [Split Decision](http://testflightapp.com/join/d9566ad38cbafb7444b0cf6c8b4aa0ad-OTM2/ http://testflightapp.com/join/d9566ad38cbafb7444b0cf6c8b4aa0...).