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Is it possible to install an ipa on an iPhone (given enterprise provisioning profile) without iTunes? We are distributing an app to a non-technical audience within our company and want to simplify things as much as possible.

In the ideal case, we'd like to host the ipa on a site, and have the users browse to the site from their iPhone and install directly. Is something like this possible?

ntaj
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  • you can also check this "Make your own app store” http://stackoverflow.com/a/12808205 – TonyMkenu Aug 01 '14 at 20:51
  • also http://www.diawi.com/ or http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2011/01/21/1/how-to-distribute-your-ios-apps-over-the-air – TonyMkenu Aug 01 '14 at 23:00

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You can use this service: www.testflightapp.com

It is free. You can send invitations/notifications to the desired users and a new version or update is uploaded. Also you can share a link to anyone you'd like.

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If you want to distribute the ipa through your own domain and server you can use HockeyKit. It's the free and open source "little brother" of HockeyApp, a hosted service to distribute app betas.

Here is what you need to do:

  • Integrate the HockeyKit SDK in your app
  • Install the server component on your web server
  • Add the devices you want to distribute to in your Apple developer account and generate an ad hoc distribution certificate with those devices
  • Build and archive with the ad hoc profile
  • Upload the ipa and the profile to your webserver
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