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Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account (www.epicgames.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I could be reading this wrong, but it looks like TestFlight allows you to distribute internally without going through the App Store.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/distributing-your-app-for-beta-testing-and-releases

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It mentions the apple developer program which is what I assume the 100 dollar subscription is. I keep seeing people say dev accounts are free but any tools beyond the dev environment are paywalled.

I wasn't even talking about app stores; I never published anything to Google play, just loaded through usb from android studio. The apple program didn't allow even that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Before TestFlight was a thing, you could self-sign your own apps (.ipa) and install them to local devices through iTunes over a USB cable connected to the device. The developer signing certificate for this was/is free, included when you sign up for the free version of Apple Developer account.

Nowadays it looks like you can still do this directly from Xcode. See section: “Connect real devices to your Mac”

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/running-your-app-in-simulator-or-on-a-device

*The mention of Apple Developer Program in the bullet points of this section is an “if” and is optional. It’s not required for testing apps on local devices.