Re:Testflight Exporter
by sschueller on Thursday February 19, 2015 @11:11AM
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I don't know how apple manages it but the new testflight is a pain to use.
The process of adding a tester alone is not intuitive and requires way too many steps.
I switched to installrapp.com for testing iOS stuff because I don't have the time to spend on finding out why the app I released for testing is not showing up in my clients test flight.
Re:Testflight Exporter
by astletron on Thursday February 19, 2015 @11:19AM
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Agreed.
I've been using Beta by Crashlytics as it is nice and cross-platform and works with ios7. Downside is the integration process and management console are a little tricky.
Re:Testflight Exporter
by k-mcgrady on Thursday February 19, 2015 @11:26AM
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Crashlytics (now owned by Twitter and rebranded as 'Fabric') is great. I'm surprised you thought the integration was tricky as it's the most simple setup I've seen. You install a menu bar app that literally walks you through each step and which automatically grabs your archives (when you archive a build) and lets you send it to testers in a couple of clicks.
Re:Testflight Exporter
by softdev12 on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:01PM
(#9075118)
I just got 2 emails today from the legacy testflightapp.com, reminding me that they are shutting down the site on Feb 22 and that I no longer will be able to access all my historical tester-app data. The email provides instructions for migrating the data from testflightapp.com to itunes connect (which is always a pain to have to go through). When I went through the steps in the email, it seems as if all the previous accepted testers would have to re-accept the testflight process. I hope this isn't the case, but it's not the end of the world otherwise.
On a larger theme, I'm surprised that someone (an enterprising tech person) doesn't set up a service that archives all the data from startups that get acquired and then are shutdown. I'm imagining something like a secure github that has all the channels for each dead/acquired service that you could log into. Or perhaps there could be a company that charged the acquirer a small fee to take over the hosting of just the archived data, so it's still accessible. Perhaps this already exists?
The process of adding a tester alone is not intuitive and requires way too many steps.
I switched to installrapp.com for testing iOS stuff because I don't have the time to spend on finding out why the app I released for testing is not showing up in my clients test flight.
I've been using Beta by Crashlytics as it is nice and cross-platform and works with ios7. Downside is the integration process and management console are a little tricky.
http://try.crashlytics.com/beta/
On a larger theme, I'm surprised that someone (an enterprising tech person) doesn't set up a service that archives all the data from startups that get acquired and then are shutdown. I'm imagining something like a secure github that has all the channels for each dead/acquired service that you could log into. Or perhaps there could be a company that charged the acquirer a small fee to take over the hosting of just the archived data, so it's still accessible. Perhaps this already exists?