Re: Apple TestFlight beta testing

2014-09-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: >but it bothers me a bit that beta testing requires the testers to have iOS 8 >on their devices. What if we want/need to test our apps on older >versions of >iOS? But isn't the iOS 8 requirement so the up coming '1,000 Beta Testers' can b

Re: Apple TestFlight beta testing

2014-09-12 Thread Chris Sheffield
Mike, You’re right. TestFlight is not new, but Apple’s implementation of it is. I’ve also been using TestFlight for years, and will most likely continue to do so in the “old” way for as long as possible, since we have to test our apps on a range of devices running various versions of iOS. Appl

Re: Apple TestFlight beta testing

2014-09-12 Thread Chris Sheffield
Kay, That’s not the case here. Turns out I found a reference to this here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25756669/app-does-not-contain-the-correct-beta-entitlement/25762530#25762530, and it will require that a new entitlement entry be put into the entitlements template for iOS apps. You hav

Re: Apple TestFlight beta testing

2014-09-11 Thread Mike Kerner
TestFlight is not new. I've been using it for years (man, it's hard to believe we've had the ability to write mobile apps for several years, isn't it?). Anyway, I just used it to distribute an ios7 beta to a bunch of users last week. One of my users just emailed me tonight saying that he was abl

Re: Apple TestFlight beta testing

2014-09-11 Thread Kay C Lan
Silly question (I haven't done it myself) but is your app only for iOS 8? I note that Testflight Beta Testing is only for iOS 8 so if your app is built to be iOS 7 compatible maybe that then makes it's 'not entitled' to be Testflight Beta Tested. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Chris Sheffield

Apple TestFlight beta testing

2014-09-11 Thread Chris Sheffield
So with the fix in LC 6.6.3, I was able to upload an app build to iTunes Connect. I wanted to play around with the new TestFlight functionality. But now when I go into iTunes Connect and try to enable the beta testing, it’s telling me my build “does not contain the correct beta entitlement”. I f