Welcome to this session on How to Publish Mobile Apps to the Store. In this
session, we'll look at the types of mobile app distributions that are
possible like internal distributions public store distributions enterprise or
beta testing distributions and we'll also look at the store submission
process for iOS and for Android so let's go ahead and get started to start with
mobile app distribution is when a mobile app is ready for production and it can
be placed on the stores for the general public to consume Health Systems allows
for generating a mobile application package for the app that can be
published to the App Store or the Google Play Store there are different types of
distributions there are internal distributions where we can distribute
the app in-house ad hoc or just as a development release there are then the
public store distributions like the public distribution and the beta testing
distribution but there are also things called enterprise distributions where
our app can be signed with an in-house certificate and released that way or it
can be released on the out systems page or a mobile device management capability
where we can go ahead and distribute the application that way so there are a
number of beta testing distributions Apple has their own test flight beta
testing with up to 2000 testers the testers are invited through their email
address and then they participate in an overall review process Android has both
alpha and beta testing and has both closed and open versions a closed beta
only the users in the test group will be allowed to get the app an open beta
anyone with the link and that has been able to acquire the link can then join
the testing so overall what is the iOS store
submission process if we look at signing your IPA to the app store distribution
first we sign the package which is the IPA and then we get the application
loader from Apple which unfortunately is only available for Mac OS so you then
take your Mac go ahead and use the application loader authenticate to that
app with your Apple ID and password and then go ahead and upload the IPA file to
the store once you've uploaded it you then need to create a description of the
app probably take some screenshots of the app to give a graphical
representation of it create keywords fill in your company information and
then set up a demo user if the application has that type of
authentication also you'll need to submit the app for review so if the
application is going to then be approved you can if you want set the application
to automatic roll automatically release the app after approval typically Apple
takes around two weeks to approve the first submission of an app but then
after that updates are usually a little faster than the very first release the
Android submissions process is similar what we need to do is sign the
application with a release key store and the key store must be the same for all
submissions of this particular application and then we upload the apk
which is the name of the application package that Android uses once the
submission is there we create a description of the app we should take
some screen shots of the app create key words and again fill in the company
application information and at the end we can go ahead and publish the app
overall the validation process is a little bit faster than the Apple version
and the application may be released in as quickly as a few hours
so that's it for how to publish mobile apps to the store thanks for watching
and have a great day