At the April 2011 Melbourne Cocoaheads meetup Oliver Jones presented a talk on using Test Flight. Test Flight is an online service for iOS app developers that makes distributing betas easy and fairly painless.

1. Test Flight

2. Agenda
•Test Flight
•What it is and is not
•How it works

3. The Problem

4. The Problem
Ad-Hoc Provisioning
(it hurts)

9. What is Test Flight?
(and how does it help?)

10. What it is NOT...

11. Not the holy grail.

12. ...but it comes close!

13. What it actually is...

14. What it actually is...
•Free for App developers & testers
•TestFlightApp.com

15. What it actually is...
•Free for App developers & testers
•TestFlightApp.com
•A Beta Tester Wrangler

16. What it actually is...
•Free for App developers & testers
•TestFlightApp.com
•A Beta Tester Wrangler
•An Over the Air Beta Build Deliverer

17. Registration
http://www.testflightapp.com

20. •Sign up with an email
address you use on
your phone!

21. •Sign up with an email
address you use on
your phone!

23. •Test Flight “Enrolls”
your iOS device.

24. •Test Flight “Enrolls”
your iOS device.
•Uses the same
infrastructure that
corporate device
enrollment does.

25. •Test Flight “Enrolls”
your iOS device.
•Uses the same
infrastructure that
corporate device
enrollment does.
•Potential security
issue?

26. •Test Flight “Enrolls”
your iOS device.
•Uses the same
infrastructure that
corporate device
enrollment does.
•Potential security
issue?
More info:
•Managing Mobile Devices WWDC 2010 Session - Available via iTunes U.
•http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iPhone_OTA_Enrollment_Configuration.pdf
•http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/
iPhoneOTAConfiguration/iPhoneOTAConfiguration.pdf
•http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/featuredarticles/FA_Wireless_Enterprise_App_Distribution/
FA_Wireless_Enterprise_App_Distribution.pdf

28. •Enrollment can “fail”.

29. •Enrollment can “fail”.
•Often not an actual
failure.

30. •Enrollment can “fail”.
•Often not an actual
failure.
•Once enrolled, device
now has a webclip
installed.

31. •Enrollment can “fail”.
•Often not an actual
failure.
•Once enrolled, device
now has a webclip
installed.
•Launching the
webclip takes you to
the TestFlight
homepage

32. Meanwhile...
... back at testflightapp.com

33. Meanwhile...
... back at testflightapp.com

53. Meanwhile...
... on my invited beta tester’s iPhone

54. Meanwhile...
... on my invited beta tester’s iPhone

58. Meanwhile...
... in the bat cave.

59. Meanwhile...
... in the bat cave.

73. Meanwhile...
... back at Apple.

74. Meanwhile...
... back at Apple.

89. REFRESH PAGE

90. REFRESH PAGE

91. Meanwhile...
... in Xcode!

92. Meanwhile...
... in Xcode!

108. Meanwhile...
... back at testflightapp.com

109. Meanwhile...
... back at testflightapp.com

130. Meanwhile...
... back with the tester & their iPhone

131. Meanwhile...
... back with the tester & their iPhone

138. Meanwhile...
... back at testflightapp.com

139. Meanwhile...
... back at testflightapp.com

144. Wrap Up

145. Wrap Up
•Test Flight API

146. Wrap Up
•Test Flight API
•“Challenged” Testers

147. Wrap Up
•Test Flight API
•“Challenged” Testers
•Questions?