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abden003
abden003

Reputation: 1335

Send iPhone app without user looking at source

I was wondering if it was possible to send someone an iPhone application without them having access to the source code? For example lets say I create an app that i do not want to put on the app store (or cydia for that matter), and I want to send this application to someone (via email, usb, etc) without them being able to look at the source code. I don't see how I could do this when they would have to load the application onto their device via Xcode.

p.s. I see this being applicable to android applications also

Upvotes: 0

Views: 100

Answers (4)

Michal Shatz
Michal Shatz

Reputation: 1416

What @Katim Languedoc said wad pretty accurate. In Android you do the same but the file extension is .apk.

Here is a post about how to make one:

Upvotes: 2

Bill Patterson
Bill Patterson

Reputation: 2558

You can also use services like TestFlight, but they just make the process described a little easier for your install-person (letting TestFlight handle the details of the actual install instead of having do it through iTunes). The fact that you have to do a build with an ad-hoc distribution profile is the same.

Upvotes: 1

Karim
Karim

Reputation: 736

  1. As Choppin Broccoli already said, create an Ad Hoc Provisioning profile in the provisioning profile section at http://developers.apple.com.

  2. In Xcode, make sure you set your build destination to "iOS Device"

  3. In Xcode, click Product->Archive. The organizer window should pop up. If the Archives tap isn't selected, select it.

  4. Click "Distribute".

  5. Select "Save for Enterprise or Ad Hoc Deployment. Click next.

  6. From the list of provisioning profiles on the next screen, select the same Ad Hoc profile that you created in step 1, and click "Export".

  7. Select the location to store the file, then click "Save".

You can send that IPA to the user to install via iTunes.

Upvotes: 2

Choppin Broccoli
Choppin Broccoli

Reputation: 3066

You would have to create an Ad Hoc version of the app and send them the .ipa file for them to install via iTunes.

Upvotes: 1

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