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Deploying Enterprise Apps for iOS 4

by on August 13th, 2010 at 9:33 am

With the introduction of iOS 4, Apple finally gave enterprise users the ability to install or update applications wirelessly. This web-based approach greatly simplifies app deployment and even allows companies to create their own private app stores.

Starting with version 3.2 of XCode (Apple’s IDE for iPhone and OS X development), developers have a new build option for iOS 4 applications. In addition to the typical ‘Build’ and ‘Build and Run’ options, developers can now select ‘Build and Archive’. This new option packages the application executable and provisioning profile into an IPA file and generates an XML manifest file.  XCode will prompt the developer to enter some basic information, such as the URL where the IPA file will be hosted, and the image that should be shown while the app is installing. This information will be populated in the manifest file.

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