Distribute Enterprise Application in the Home

Question

I created an application for the company, then they purchased an Enterprise license and are now ready to distribute the application. I read this article: Distributing your application inside the house. I successfully created the .ipa file, but then it just says: "Distribute the iOS Application File using MDM." without reference or any explanation of what this means. Further research just bothers me. I found such articles: Add MDM Servers , which uses terms such as "MDM Vendor". What the hell is an MDM provider? Of course, the Apple Enterprise program comes with an application distribution method without having to buy third-party software, no? Is there any tutorial that can tell me step-by-step instructions on how to distribute this application in a non-professional environment that I can understand? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can distribute your Enterprise application without MDM. How it works, you upload the .ipa file and manifest file .plist to a site somewhere. Then you just put the hyperlink that connects to the .plist file. The end user uses the browser on his device, removes the link and automatically installs the application on his device. You can find a tutorial here, which can be easily found here . The only problem is that the tutorial uses an old version of xcode that generates a .plist file for you. Xcode 6 will not generate a .plist file, but you can find an example file here . Just replace the .ipa file url, package id, package version and header with your own values.