[jodecode]

Hi, I would like to be able to have my very simple apps available to my clients with out going to play store and or iTunes.

Can you please point me to a how to from start to finish video on making Apps available either personal servers or your server?

Thank you!

[Paul_paul]

You need to build a web app for Apple devices and you can host Android apps yourself. Read the manual.
http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/learningcenter.html

[support-octavio]

Hi,

In order to allow your web app in our servers(App Center) you need to follow the instructions in the Quick Start Tutorial: http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/docs/mobione_quickstart/quickstart.html#upload_to_appcenter

Please be aware that App Center will host your web application in the cloud, allowing you to easily view your web app on your device. It will be on the server for up to 50 days. There are a couple of reasons:

1) MobiOne App Center was originally designed as a convenience for app building and short term hosting for webapp testing. For long term use we envisioned that users would host their webapp on more traditional long term hosting services or we will evolve to better support the latter.

2) The 50 day limitation is a cost savings measure. Currently there are thousands of users testing and playing with mobione resulting in a few zillion gigabytes of cloud storage. All of this adds up to substantial costs which we do not currently pass along to the user community. We have found that most webapps/apps are not used after 50 days of inactivity. Thus we garbage collect and reuse that space to keep costs down.

We don’t have such a doc that explains step by step how to allow your web app in your own server, but you can find helpful this videotutorial I found on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF_5wQG6O7U

[jodecode]

Thanks but this didn’t help at all. Plus I don’t read manuals.
I was looking for instructions from MobiOne video tutorials, surprised they dont have interactive info on this topic, as well as others. Thanks anyway.

[support-michael]

@jodecode

>Can you please point me to a how to from start to finish video on making Apps available either personal servers or your server?

We can show you how to build ios and android apps and install and test them on your devices. But the distribution of apps, especially apple ios apps is restricted by apple license agreements and distribution mechanisms. Apple will not allow you to create your own appstore/distribution mechanism except in the special case of an enterprise developer program that will enable you to distribute your apps to your company’s employees and B2B. See https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/distribute.html
If you are working with enterprise app distribution or b2b then the assumption is you have the technical understanding, authority, and resources to pursue these options individually.

I hope this is provides some insight into the distribution considerations you’ll need to understand and account for. Android is much simpler but you’ll need to develop your own web-based app distribution. (it’s not too hard but there is no video series that will teach you all the steps in detail as they vary based on your web server infrastructure). We can give you a quick outline of the steps that you can then pursue if that is helpful. But before doing that I would like to ensure that you have full knowledge of the mobile distribution challenges that will confront you.

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