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How to send IPA and APK files to testers, find a UDID, install outside the stores and run a smooth test round.
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AppForShare has four ways to share app builds: Guest (no account, free), Free ($0), Pro ($12 per month or $120 per year) and Team ($39 per month or $390 per year, 5 seats included). The plans...
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AppForShare offers white-label install pages and custom domains on the Team plan. You can serve install links from your own domain (for example apps.yourcompany.com), show your logo and brand...
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AppForShare keeps a history of your app builds through projects: each app is a project, and every upload becomes a new build in that project with its own install link, version number and (on Pro...
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You can automate AppForShare by uploading builds from your CI pipeline with the AppForShare command line tool and an upload token, and by sending build events to Slack, Discord or your own server...
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The right file transfer protocol depends on what you are moving and who receives it. For server to server transfers, SFTP is the usual secure choice. For delivering files to people, especially to...
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Update: The Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2023 offer described in the original version of this post has ended, and the plans it applied to have been retired. AppForShare does not currently offer...
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Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, and the name comes from Philadelphia police in the 1950s and 1960s, who used it for the crowded, chaotic shopping day before the...
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Offline mode testing checks that your app behaves correctly when the device has no connection or a poor one: it should show useful content, keep the user's input, avoid crashes, and sync cleanly...
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AppForShare protects your app builds with HTTPS on every page, a private storage bucket, signed download links that expire quickly, and an optional password on each build. Files are stored on...
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OS compatibility testing means checking that your app works on every iOS and Android version, and every kind of device, that you promise to support. The practical approach is to set clear minimum...
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A longer testing period gives testers time to use your app the way real users will: across days, networks, OS versions and devices, not just in a single afternoon. On AppForShare, how long a test...
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Keeping a mobile app secure takes two separate efforts: testing the app itself for vulnerabilities, and protecting the unreleased builds you share with testers. AppForShare helps with the second...
