Question

I have developed my first full fledged iPhone app, and tested it on my phone. I would like to have it tested by one of the contributing graphic artists on their iPhone. They live in another state so I do not have access to their device. I added their Device ID to the apple portal.

A couple of questions:
I do not see the device show in Xcode when I hit refresh. Should I be seeing it?
Which executable file(s) do I send to them?

Answer 1

Look at testflight. It makes distributing apps very easy. Since you have already included the designers device ID, all you have to do is:

• Sign up to test flight
• invite the designer and tell him to register and add his device info
• go to apple developer portal – provisioning – distribution and create a new distribution profile (don’t forget to add the designers device when creating the profile), download and open the certificate (which will be shown in Xcode’s Window>Organizer) – make sure that the correct certificates are selected in your build settings.
• make sure that iOS device is selected ( and not the simulator) now in Xcode go to Product>Archive, when the archive is shown click distribute>adhoc distribution
• this will create an IPA file.
• upload this to test flight and follow the instructions to select the designer from your team.