Install IPA file from server and install programmatically

Question

I want to download ipa file from server and install programmatically. I want to do same kind of thing in android as well and i have found a way.

Android: http://bpsinghrajput.blogspot.in/2012/07/how-to-download-and-install-apk-from.html

IOS: ?

Could you please help me.

Regards,

Sneh

Answer 1

You can't install IPA's programatically from within iOS (on a non-jailbroken device).

Some other options are:

• If you are only testing then : Upload the Application to Apple's TestFlight and invite testers.
• If you are only testing then you can use a web adhoc-install. This requires that the device that is going have the application installed is already registered in the provisioning profile. See: http://gknops.github.io/adHocGenerate/ and https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/AppDistributionGuide/TestingYouriOSApp/TestingYouriOSApp.html
• Open a direct link to the AppStore for the application you want to install from within another app. See: How to link to apps on the app store

Answer 2

You can use ideviceinstaller for that. This github gist has a few examples

https://gist.github.com/githubutilities/91ba27c2f5a135dce1a2#file-ios-hacks-md

# list installed app on the connected device
# it also lists the identifier of the installed packages
ideviceinstaller -l

# install ipa
ideviceinstaller -i <your-package.ipa>

# uninstall app
ideviceinstaller -U <your-app-id>