Over-The-Air installation

Create and distribute an iOS package using an Over the Air (OTA) installation.

Before you begin:

You have prepared to package your app for iOS. As you are packaging an iOS app, this can only be done from an Mac® OS development machine. The images defined in the package properties Icon (58x58 px) , Icon (60x60 px), and Icon (1024x1024 px) are used during the over-the-air installation; be sure these properties were set. You must be a member of the iOS Developer Enterprise Program.
Note: If you are not a member of the iOS Developer Enterprise Program, yet want to distribute your app in-house for testing purposes only, see Distribute using other tools for testing.
  1. Set the OTA_URL environment variable to a URL. When the package is created, a packagename.plist file is generated. A URL is displayed in the output that can be used for OTA install.
    This step generates a HTML page with a CSS file to upload to a web server which automatically contains the URLs for downloading the IPA and installing the application.
    These files are generated in the directory specified by the Distribution directory property, which by default is $(ProjectDir)/distbin.
  2. Upload the plist file and the ipa package.
    Important: The Web server must be an HTTPS server.
  3. Send the URL to the iOS device by mail or SMS. Alternatively, upload the generated HTML page and its companion CSS File to a web server.
  4. On the iOS device, click on the URL.
    The app installs on the device.