iPhone kiosk

[Charles E Buchwald]

Thanks, Mark.
I'd heard about MDM, but this points me in the right direction for more. I don't have Richard's needs for the custom hardware add-on, so this sounds like it will work for my project. I'll post here as I find out more.
Cheers,
- Charles

On 25 Aug 2014, at 2:31 PM, Mark Wilcox <mark at sorcery-ltd.co.uk> wrote:

> Jailbreaking is a pain - do you really need it? I ask because iOS has a
> kiosk mode - look up "Guided Access". If you have to jailbreak you
> always get new devices with the latest firmware and then have to wait
> for someone to create a new jailbreak.
> 
> If you retain control/ownership of the devices then you can use an
> enterprise developer account for production and manage updates with a
> Mobile Device/Application Management solution - MDM can also trigger
> "single app mode" (not sure how this is different from Guided Access)
> remotely. There are third party solutions and Apple provides a basic
> free one (called Profile Manager) that ships as part of OS X Server
> (which you can have a copy of for free with an iOS developer account).
> 
> Updating apps by simply downloading a new stackfile is entirely doable
> in an iOS device - as stated by others, it's just against the app store
> rules. That doesn't let you update LiveCode itself though, in case you
> ever need that.
> 
> I think the key consideration around updates is how the app will get
> updated if it is always running. For that I think you probably need a
> MDM solution so you can release the device from single app mode, update
> it and put it back into single app mode.
> 
> Of course the devil is in the details but I recommend looking into all
> of the legitimate solutions before going down the jailbreak route.
> 
> -- 
>  Mark Wilcox
>  mark at sorcery-ltd.co.uk
> 
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014, at 06:45 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
>> Hoping someone here knows the answer to this. I realize it's an unusual 
>> situation.
>> 
>> I am setting up a jail-broken iPhone with a LC app. This phone will be 
>> set to boot directly into the LC app. The phone will only ever be used 
>> for this one purpose. Think of it as an iPhone kiosk. Users will not be 
>> able to access any functions on the phone outside of the app.
>> 
>> Once I have completed all the development work on the first phone, I 
>> want to clone this phone to other iPhones so that each is an exact copy. 
>> Is that possible? Can I create an iTunes backup of the first phone and 
>> then use that backup to "restore" it to new iPhones?
>> 
>> Second question is in regards to distributing and updating the app.
>> 
>> The app itself is not to be sold through the App Store. My business 
>> model is based on distributing these iPhones (with the app 
>> pre-installed). Again, the phone will never be used for any purpose 
>> outside of my app. The phone will not be used to make calls, but it does 
>> need to access the internet. Most importantly, my app needs to be kept 
>> updated. Is there some way to automatically update the app (even through 
>> a jail-broken means)? I imagine larger corporations have exclusive apps 
>> that are not distributed publicly and are kept updated. How does that
>> work?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Richard Miller
>> 
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