有没有办法在应用程序商店之外发布 ios 应用程序？

有没有办法通过我自己的网站发布 ios 应用程序，不用应用程序商店？
我的意思是有没有什么方法可以让终端用户下载。从我的网站 ipa 文件与他们的浏览器应用程序，并安装它直接在他们的 iOS 设备？
我已经在网上搜索过了，但似乎没有任何选择，我只是想确认一下。

谢谢你

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There are several possibilities, which probably won't match your needs:

  1. Since last month it's possible to test apps on a device without the need of a paid membership.
  2. There's a possibility to deploy an app through a service like TestFlight, but this needs either a profile installed on the device (like HockeyApp) or always new build since the old ones expire after 30 days.
  3. You could deploy an app with the Enterprise Program

The easy way you describe is not possible.

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If you have and Enterprise membership you can do this, but it really isn't what they want you to do on a large scale.

Take a look at this question: Deploying an iOS Application Using Apple Enterprise Developer Program

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The options include:

  1. App Store (free or paid)
  2. Enterprise Distribution (must be within an organization)
  3. Open source distribution

It does not sound like any of these will meet your requirements, so no.

Further explanation: Just to be clear, the limitation is not in distributing your .ipa file, it is the ability for users to install it on their phone. iOS requires an app be signed by Apple (from the App Store), from an Enterprise certificate, or from a developer certificate when a valid provisioning profile includes the target device.

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Basically there are three ways

  • App store

With this method anyone with an iPhone can have access to the application. You can distribute an unlimited number of applications like this. Apple gets a 30% cut. Of course, Apple must approve your application.

  • Ad hoc

You can distribute applications using ad hoc without going through the app store, but you are limited to a maximum of 100 devices. With this method you can distribute your application from a web site, email, etc.

  • Enterprise

The method is for internal distribution in companies with more than 500 employees. Apple does not provide any more public detail that I could find on this method.

It doesn't sound like any of these methods meet your criteria unless you have fewer than 100 customers and don't plan to exceed that number. It sounds like from the question your customers are not internal to your company.

I would advise contacting Apple. They might be able to arrange some kind of custom distribution deal.

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Apart from the options mentioned above there are 2 more methods.

Method 1:

You could ask the user to open a webpage in safari browser with the following link in it.

href="itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=url of the manifest file"

The app is installed as soon as the user clicks the link.

Method 2:

You can also leverage iOS mdm solutions like Hexnode MDM though its bit of an overkill.

here is a link on how to distribute app without app store

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UPDATE:

BuddyBuild service will stop on 1-3-2018, the other alternative I know is https://www.diawi.com

Old ANSWER:

Try BuddyBuild , after making a build you can take link to IPA file and distribute it as shown.

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You if don't want to upload your files to the already mentioned web services, you can host your IPA in your own computer and distribute over the internet using ngrok and the approach given by jithin.

I've created a server that does exactly that and also is protected by password. You can check it out here:

https://github.com/Edudjr/IPAServer

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You can use enterprise distribution services like BuildCannon, but you still need an apple enterprise account. I use a custom solution, but it's a pain to maintain.

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To send build to testers or client I am generally using installonair.com which allows to upload IPA file and generate short URL which we can provide to other users and they can download and install easily from that link.

There are other options as well like Apple Testflight, hockeyapp but I found installonair.com is the quick one.


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