Description
Purpose
TestDrive is a plugin that replaces the main feature of TestFlight - installing an iOS app over-the-air on an iOS device through a simple click on a link.
Usage
Version 1.0 of TestDrive does two things:
- It allows an iOS app developer to upload an .ipa and a .plink file to the WordPress Media Library from their Mac/PC.
- It allows an iOS app tester to select a .plink file from the WordPress Media Library and to obtain an itms-services link, which they can touch to install the iOS app on their iOS device. Subsequent versions will have a much more TestFlight-like look and feel. It will support an easy automated workflow for non-technical testers to install and test your iOS app.
Installation
- Create a self-signed certificate as per: https://blog.httpwatch.com/2013/12/12/five-tips-for-using-self-signed-ssl-certificates-with-ios/
- Make the .cer certificate file be available on a separate non-https website and open that website from your iOS device to install the certificate, or email it to your iOS device. NOTE: Don't simply open the https website from your iOS device without first installing the website certificate on that device - the browser on your iOS device will simply ignore the certificate on your https website, but it will not warn you that doing this will cause the iOS device to refuse to install your iOS app later in the process.
- Setup SSL on your Apache server as per: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/ssl/ssl_howto.html
- Install WordPress on your Apache server as per: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install
- Open the command line and go to the plugins directory: $> cd /var/www/my-website/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/
- Check-out the testdrive plugin using svn: $> svn co http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/testdrive testdrive
- Open the browser on your PC, login to your WordPress website and go to Plugins: https://my-website.com/wp-admin/plugins.php
- Activate the TestDrive plugin.
- Compile your iOS app and create and ad-hoc archive as per: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19081180/ad-hoc-deployment NOTE: Be sure to follow all of their recommendations! NOTE: Troubleshoot as per: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20276907/enterprise-app-deployment-doesnt-work-on-ios-7-1
- Edit your .plist file as per: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26306876/xcode6-how-to-export-an-app-with-plist-for-enterprise-distribution NOTE: If your .ipa file has a space in the filename, be careful because WordPress will display the .ipa file just as you named it, but it will save it with a hyphen replacing the space in the filename, thus you should add the correct hyperlink to your .ipa file in your .plink file. Otherwise, upon trying to install the iOS app to your iOS device you will get the error: "Unable to install MyApp!"
- Open the command line and include the MIME types for .ipa and .plink in the following file: /var/www/my-website/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php NOTE: If you don't, you won't be able to upload the .ipa & .plist files to WordPress!
- Open the command line and change the following line in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini: upload_max_filesize = 64M NOTE: If you don't, you won't be able to upload the .ipa file, whose size is definitely greater than the default upload max filesize of 2 MB! NOTE: I also modified the following files, but I'm unsure that it makes a difference: /var/www/testdrive/wordpress/wp-config.php /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf @TODO: Test whether the above two files make a difference!
- Open the browser on your PC, login to your WordPress website, and go to Media to upload your .ipa and .plist files: https://my-website.com/wp-admin/upload.php
- Open the browser on your iOS device, login to your WordPress website and go to the TestDrive plugin page: https://my-website.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=td
- Touch the "Select .plist File" button, select one, and touch the "Insert" button.
- Touch the "Download!" link - the iOS app should begin installing on your iOS device, please be patient.
Support
Currently we provide NO TECH SUPPORT FOR THIS PLUGIN - use at your own risk.