Comprehensive App Distribution for Testing
Enhance your mobile DevOps lifecycle with Appcircle's comprehensive Testing Distribution module. Utilize seamless app binary distribution and management for efficient testing across multiple devices and teams.
Binary Distribution
Centralized Management
- Manage all your binary files across different platforms in a single, organized repository.
- This helps maintain a streamlined process for accessing and distributing your app builds.
Support for Multiple Formats
- Easily distribute a variety of file formats, including IPA, APK, and AAB.
- This flexibility ensures you can cater to both iOS and Android platforms efficiently.
Testing Groups
IAM/SSO Based Test Groups
- Seamlessly integrate with IAM and SSO systems to manage your test groups securely.
User Management
- Simplify the process of adding and removing testers, managing permissions, and ensuring that only authorized users have access to specific app builds.
Role Based Access Control
- Maintain strong security and organization by using corporate directory services to control tester access and participation.
Multi Distribution Channels
- Quickly distribute your app builds via email.
- Send download links directly to testers' inboxes, giving them immediate access to the latest versions.
QR Code
- Generate QR codes that testers can scan to quickly download your app builds.
- This method simplifies the distribution process, making it more convenient for testers to access the latest versions.
Hooks (Teams, Slack)
- Utilize webhooks to integrate with communication platforms like Microsoft Teams and Slack.
- Automatically send notifications and download links to your testing channels, keeping your team up to date with the latest builds.
CI/CD Plugins & Extensions
Streamlined Integration
- Easily integrate with your existing CI/CD pipelines to automate the testing distribution of your app binaries.
- With a variety of extensions, it facilitates integrations with platforms such as Fastlane, GitHub, Jenkins, and Visual Studio.
- This ensures that each build is automatically tested and made available to testers, streamlining the release process.
CLI and API Support
- Appcircle offers CLI and API for automation.
- Easily integrate your CI pipelines with Appcircle using our CLI and API.
- Learn About Appcircle's CLI and API Support
Access Control
Fine-Grained Access Control
- Implement fine-grained access controls to safeguard your app builds from unauthorized access and potential security threats.
SSO/LDAP Support
- Secure your distribution process with LDAP and SSO authentication.
- These methods provide robust security measures, ensuring that only authenticated users can access your app builds.
- Learn About LDAP and SSO Authentication for App Distribution
Reporting
Comprehensive Metrics
- Gain valuable insights into your app distribution process with detailed reports on various metrics such as download counts, active testers, and feedback.
- This data helps you measure the reach and effectiveness of your distribution efforts.
Tester Engagement Tracking
- Track how testers interact with your app throughout the testing process.
- Collect and analyze their feedback to make informed decisions on improvements and feature enhancements.
Testing Distribution Module Overview
Introducing the Testing Distribution Module, your complete solution for distributing and managing pre-release mobile apps with secure access, organized tester groups, and detailed reporting.
Version Control
Keep track of different versions of your distributed binaries to maintain a clear record of updates. This allows you to review and manage changes easily, facilitate rollbacks if needed, and address issues efficiently.
It also ensures testers access the correct version, preserving consistency and accuracy throughout the testing process.
Re-sign Binary
Re-sign app binaries to update signing credentials without rebuilding from scratch. Replace the original signature with a new certificate or keystore effortlessly.
During re-signing process, you can also update the app’s name, version, and build number to ensure the binary aligns perfectly with your latest distribution requirements.
Multi-CDN Support
Use multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to distribute your app builds. This redundancy ensures that your app remains accessible even if one CDN experiences downtime.
Improve download speeds and reduce latency for users by leveraging a network of CDNs placed strategically around the globe.
Secure Delivery
Securely distribute your app builds through CDNs by utilizing tokens, ensuring that only authorized users can access and download your app builds. This adds an extra layer of security, ensuring that your content is delivered safely to the intended recipients.
Desktop (Apple Silicon)
Expand your distribution capabilities to desktop environments, specifically supporting Apple Silicon devices. This ensures that testers using the latest Apple hardware can participate in the testing process.
Multi-region Support
Make your app builds accessible worldwide with optimized performance tailored for different regions, including those with unique internet regulations.
Ensure high availability and low latency for your app distribution no matter where your users are located.
Mobile
Offer comprehensive support for distributing app builds across both iOS and Android platforms. Ensure that testers on either platform can access and test your app efficiently.
Self-hosted Solutions
Provide the option to host the distribution infrastructure on-premises. This provides greater control over the distribution process and ensures that sensitive data stays within your organization’s network.
Multi Cloud
Available across multiple cloud providers, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure, giving you flexible deployment options.
Efficiency
Maintain a seamless and efficient app release cycle by automating repetitive tasks.
Testing Distribution module minimizes manual intervention and human error, allowing teams to focus more on development and quality assurance. It helps accelerate feedback loops — ensuring faster iterations and quicker time-to-release.
Binary Tags for Clarity
Add meaningful metadata to your binaries, such as commit ID, configuration, or workflow name—to make each build easily identifiable in the Testing Portal.
This helps testers quickly understand the context and purpose of each build, streamlining testing and feedback cycles.
Ad Hoc Distribution
Manage ad hoc distributions without relying on iTunes or third-party apps to collect UDIDs. This feature simplifies the process, enabling more straightforward and efficient management of devices and provisioning profiles.
It streamlines the entire distribution workflow, making it easy to share your app directly with testers.
User-friendly Portal for Testers
Offer your testers a clean, intuitive portal where they can easily access builds, read release notes, and install apps with just a few clicks—no technical setup required.
Each app version clearly shows its size and certificate type, while the search bar lets testers filter by app name, version, release notes, or build number—making it simple to find exactly what they need.
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