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mAc
mAc

Reputation: 2514

Wanted to test my app on device through app store without review

I have a small problem but couldn't find solution for that. I have founded Questions like this but the answers are not upto my requirement or may be i am not able to understand them correctly.

Problem :-

I have my app on app store(Reading PDF and downloading them). It is working fine for downloading small pdf's and showing them, but when it comes to download large pdf's my app crashes or abort. One more strange thing my app works fine on simulator with huge pdf's also but not on devices. Now, i have made some changes in my code and i wanted to test it on device.I can not deploy it directly on device as i am not having iphone right now. so i want it to upload on appstore for testing purpose without giving it for Apple review.

i want to know the whole procedure how to do it.Starting from whether i have to create a new account for that to how to test it on device.Url's will also be helpful.

And ya my device is not having any memory issues. Thanks. Any help will be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 265

Answers (4)

Simon Lee
Simon Lee

Reputation: 22334

You can't upload to the App Store for testing purposes. You must either get hold of an iPhone to test or employ the services of a testing company who will have a whole suite of devices to test on.

Upvotes: 0

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 1392

You can not upload to the app store without review process. period.

Large PDF's work in the simulator because the simulator runs on your computer which has lots more RAM than the iPhone.

You will need any iPhone or iPod Touch to test it. you could even use a friends.

Upvotes: 1

Antwan van Houdt
Antwan van Houdt

Reputation: 6991

You wouldn't sell an experimental piece of equipment in any store, so you also do not upload things for debugging to the app store.

If you want to test it on someone's device why don't you just create a provisioning profile and send him the app? Then he can install it through itunes.

Also you should write the data you received ( while downloading ) to the disk every now and then, otherwise you are going to keep having this issue of running out of memory.

Something like:

// received data
NSFileHandle *yourFileHandle = [NSFileHandle fileHandleForWritingAtPath:filePath];
[yourFileHandle writeData:dataChunk];
// get rid of data chunk

Upvotes: 3

Ben Clayton
Ben Clayton

Reputation: 82219

I'm afraid you can't distribute your app via the app store without going through the app store review process. You might want to read up about ad hoc distribution of your apps. I've used TestFlight successfully in the past for ad-hoc distribution.

Upvotes: 2

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