deploying to multiple mobile devices

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/16/18 2:22 PM, Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode wrote:
> Some of my stacks are for a classroom situation, so would like to deploy to
> the various smartphones of  class sizes of 3 to 20 students  (1) preferably
> cable-free (Wifi?), (2) easily for the end-user, and (3) as simultaneously
> as possible.
> 
> On Mac and for iOS, it seems the best (only?) choice is Jacqueline Landman
> Gay's AirLaunch <http://www.hyperactivesw.com/airlaunch/index.html>,
> specially since it does so from withing LC itself.
> 
> But for Android? and on Windows?

Android apps can be downloaded from anywhere if the user has turned on 
the option to download apps from "unknown sources", so all you need to 
do is put the apk file on a server somewhere and give out the link. The 
user goes to the link in a browser on their mobile device and when they 
click it, the app will install. If their device prefs do not allow 
installation from "unknown sousrces", they can turn the option on 
temporarily in the Security section of the Android system settings.

On iOS, no distribution is possible until you have built the app with a 
profile that contains the UUID for each user device. AirLaunch, or any 
other third-party solution, will prepare the app for distribution but 
iOS won't install it without the correct distribution profile. Apple 
provides TestFlight which overcomes some of this limitation but I have 
never used it so I'm not sure exactly how it works. Someone more 
familiar with it would know more.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com