Is it possible to share a Beta app for testing to multiple accounts or people?

I would like to share the app for more that one account.

Is it possible to somehow share a Beta app for testing to multiple accounts or people? Or published app to be restricted from all users

0 jim_m_58 over 2 years ago

Neither is possible, The best way to do this right now is email a sizeload.

Sharing beta apps has been discussed for years, even by AlphaMonkey, but it's not happened, and with changes like the CIQ Mobile App and the on-device CIQ store, it gets more complex, in that you can't even see your own beta apps (no access to your own developer dashboard)

0 Hotcoder over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Ok, understand. Maybe there is somewhere I can raise a petition or vote for this idea? :)

0 jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to Hotcoder

This issue has been raised a number of times over the last 5-6 years (since beta apps were introduced), and in 2018 AlphaMonkey even said to me it's something they'd like to change. (when he couldn't install one of my beta apps I'd shown him!)

I've used sideloads if I'd like someone to test a non-production app for me. You can provide a .set file if special settings are needed, and if you are generating a .fit with fitcontrib, they can email that to you to check out. It's not great, but it does work.

0 andyj713 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

How about through github?

0 jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to andyj713

Try it. I'm no fan of github.

With email ,you have a better chance of making sure it doesn't get used by people outside your testers..

0 beva 8 days ago

You might make it available public and use a 'secret' key that has to be set in the user properties settings for validation. You might use their device signature to make an hardcoded array of valid unique keys. Imho this beats sideloading.