Ad-hoc testing distrubtion

Getting credentials

Building the app

Installing the app via iTunes

Nice and clear directions in this forum post.

Installing the app OTA

• .ipa archives, must specify download URL
• .ipa archives can be modified after save (as Testflight does)
• Step by step guide to the manual process

Testflight

Continuous integration and Jenkins

• A blog post
• An older blog post with more manual scripting
• The XCode jenkins plugin (and source)
• Publishing to Testflight

Updating the app's version from the command line

An app's version is held in the CFBundleVersion key of the app's Info.plist file.

Plists are a pain to deal with, but there is a command line plist helper called PlistBuddy in /usr/libexec since Leopard.

You can update the CFBundleVersion using:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :CFBundleVersion ${VERSION}" myapp_ios-Info.plist