i’m wishing to try some iPhone/iPad development with MonoTouch (<3 .NET) and the first step is to create an account/enrol in the Apple Development Program.
The first thing they ask me is if this will be an individual or a company. First up, this is just myself and a mate .. so we don’t really have some official company set up etc (please -> any suggestions to do this will be met on deaf ears. If our R&D work out – THEN we’ll get that sorted).
BUT – we would like to make it so myself, my mate AND our family/friends can test out our R&D effort – say .. 1 dev, 1 UI guy and 4 or 5 family/friends.
What type of account should I have?
I’ve read some other SO posts that it’s possible to have other people test out apps on the actual device(s) with some magic certificate stuff … but I just want to make sure I get the correct account set up.
Cheers 🙂
Yes, you can do ad-hoc distribution to up to 100 devices using an individual developer account.
There isn’t any difference between an individual account and a company account in terms of what you can do to develop, test, and distribute apps. The only difference is that with a company account, there is a Team Leader who can add other developers to the account and manage their capabilities, but that has nothing to do with distributing the app.