The regulars
of application development and testing are familiar with the name of
"Testflight". This is a tool allowing you to
easily deploy versions (called “Beta”) to
testers, before offering an application or a new version
on the App Store. It is an incredibly powerful and practical solution that
missing in Apple's development ecosystem. She was also
available on Android.
But that was before...
Because we have just learned, Apple has bought the company which offers this
TestFlight tool as well as advertising management platform
SkyRocket.
The development teams are already integrated into Apple and the
The first changes did not take long. So, at the start of the week, TestFlight
announced the end of support for Android test versions from March 21
next. On the SDK side, it seems that those who already use it can
continue its use, but it is no longer possible to use it in
new applications.
It is all the more difficult to imagine the future of the tool at this time
current that Apple has absolutely not communicated on the subject, except
(after questioning) the classic answer: "Apple sometimes buys
companies…” but we can hypothesize that TestFlight might not
survive this acquisition for a long time. This was the case of Siri or Chomp
in the past.
Let's hope this buyout is just oneprelude to the arrival of tools
testing and quality management by Applefor developers
iOS: they really need it!
It is thanks to such solutions that the versions arrive on our machines
with a minimum of bugs, without that... Everything is more complicated, and that doesn't
could serve neither developers, nor users, nor
Apple !
To be continued!
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founder of the site. Computer engineer and Internet specialist where he has held various positions of responsibility, Laurent has been passionate about mobility since the arrival of "PDAs" in the 90s. Journalist for 4 years for the magazine Team Palmtops (Posse Presse) and author of several books on the iPad published by Pearson.
