{"id":36577,"date":"2022-07-25T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36577"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:02:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:02:52","slug":"personal-app-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/25\/personal-app-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal App Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveStreza\/status\/1548013071121010688\">Steve Streza<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveStreza\/status\/1548013071121010688\">\n<p>To make a small app for a friend,<\/p>\n<ul><li>Mac: Send a <tt>.app<\/tt>, maybe right-click &gt; Open<\/li>\n<li>Windows: Send a <tt>.exe<\/tt> or <tt>.msi<\/tt> installer<\/li>\n<li>Linux: Send a <tt>.appimage<\/tt><\/li>\n<li>Android: Enable dev mode, send a <tt>.apk<\/tt><\/li>\n<li>iOS: Spend $100\/year, set up TestFlight, make a new build every 3 months because they expire<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And, <a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/28802883\/difference-between-internal-and-external-testers-in-itunes-testflight-beta-testi\">unless<\/a> you want to give the friend a role on your App Store Connect account to make them an internal tester, you also have to wait for your TestFlight submission to go through Beta App Review.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/13\/sideloading-via-altstore\/\">Sideloading via AltStore<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Streza: To make a small app for a friend, Mac: Send a .app, maybe right-click &gt; Open Windows: Send a .exe or .msi installer Linux: Send a .appimage Android: Enable dev mode, send a .apk iOS: Spend $100\/year, set up TestFlight, make a new build every 3 months because they expire And, unless you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-07-25T19:02:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"6e0efbee-2fa0-4cb3-b8c1-565d27559f44","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-07-25T19:02:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Abg777i-gTLO4wVZdJ1WfRA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2078,71,2132,2016],"class_list":["post-36577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-programming","tag-sideloading","tag-testflight"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36578,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36577\/revisions\/36578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}