Building Apps for Beta Testers
You may have been giving test builds to friends and colleagues all the way through developing your app, but even if you haven't, it becomes more important to do so as you get closer to uploading the app to the app stores. Beta testers can tell you about technical and non-technical issues. Are there typos in the Credits? Does the icon look good? Were there any strange aspects to the installation experience? And of course, does the app do what it's supposed to do, on the numerous devices and operating systems?
The process of making an app to send to a tester is different on Android than on iOS. In fact, it's incredibly easy on Android! Let's look at that first.
Sending an Android App to testers
When you do a Save as Standalone Application… for Android, you create an APK file. You could e-mail that file to your testers, and they could do what is called a "side load" of the file onto their device. In chapter 2, Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile, we saw how...
