Chapter 12. Deployment
Once your app is fundamentally complete, it's unlikely that you'll want to be the only user of your app; thus, you can now start considering the various avenues for deployment. Deployment comes in several different flavors, and we'll cover most of these in this chapter. You'll be guided through the process of signing up for developer accounts as well.
In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:
- Building modes
- Distribution methods
- Signing up for developer accounts
- Generating signed release builds
- Deploying ad hoc releases
- Deploying app store releases
One kind of build that we won't be discussing in this chapter is the enterprise build: these are deployments intended for internal use by a company (usually, for their own employees). This typically requires specialized configuration within the environment and, as such, is outside the scope of this book.
