TestFlight Beta Testing

I&#x27;m using both Apple TestFlight and the original TestFlight, and the original is just such a smoother experience, even with having to add UDID&#x27;s to provisioning profiles.<p>Things that are annoying about Apple TestFlight compared to the original:<p>- itunesconnect, while better than before, pales in comparison to the simplicity of testflightapp<p>- builds submitted to Apple &quot;take a while&quot; before they&#x27;re available, testflightapp is instant once you&#x27;ve uploaded.<p>- managing users in groups seems to be absent

Does anyone have experience yet with the timeline for the beta app review required for external testers? This is significant because I feel like I would just have internal users bring their device over, or install it themselves from Xcode. Its the external users that seem the most important with this.<p>My regular submissions have ranged from 7 days to 20 hours, but I would hope they will keep the beta review to the shorter end of that.

&gt; Apps made available to external testers require a Beta App Review and must comply with the full App Store Review Guidelines before testing can begin. A review is required for new versions of your app that contain significant changes. Up to 10 apps can be tested at a time, internally or externally.<p>Eww. Still doesn&#x27;t hold a candle to an APK.

It&#x27;s disappointing seeing how TestFlight has been integrated into iTunes Connect. What mostly upsets me is the seemingly arbitrary review before the app is released to testers. It&#x27;s exactly this kind of a delay (&quot;several hours&quot;) that keeps me from using Google Play for Android app beta &amp; alpha testing.<p>I end up with tight deadlines and my testers include clients &amp; superiors. I can&#x27;t afford a variable chunk of time between app compilation and release to testers. I&#x27;ve had really good experiences with Crashlytics and have heard good things about Hockeyapp. I&#x27;ll stick with 3rd party distribution for the forseeable future.

Tester? Seeking tester? I&#x27;m running a list to connect developers to people who want to test their apps.<p>All feedback appreciated.<p><a href="http://sealedabstract.com/betalist" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sealedabstract.com&#x2F;betalist</a>

It&#x27;s about time! It&#x27;s been such a hassle always needing the device id, creating the provisioning profiles, having to recreate the profiles and rebuild the project for every user you add. And also being limited to only 100 devices.

I&#x27;m going to do a bit of shameless self-promotion for my CLI tool for ad-hoc deployments, hawk:<p><a href="https://github.com/mtrudel/hawk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mtrudel&#x2F;hawk</a><p>Using a bit of XML glue, it uses simple building blocks of xcodebuild, S3, and email to give you one command building and distribution of your app, all driven by a plaintext Hawkfile. I (and a few colleagues) have been using it for a couple of years now, and it&#x27;s been a real boon. Would love feedback.

Sorry to see that the older TestFlight seems to be losing functionality. Sessions show up as anonymous and remote logging doesn&#x27;t work for me anymore. I&#x27;m thinking of switching to <a href="http://hockeyapp.net/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hockeyapp.net&#x2F;</a>

I read that the beta app review only applies for the 1.0 version, or if you make significant changes. Not sure about the time frame though.

Kudo&#x27;s to them on branding. The name was so good even Apple decided to keep it!

Is it only for ios8?