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So you've received an invite to do some beta testing through TestFlight.
TestFlight is a great over the air distribution tool where developers can send you the latest
build and you can install it on your device without having to sync up through iTunes.
So, you've probably receive the email already. And now I'll show you the steps to accept
the invite and set up your device.
There's a couple of gotchas along the way, so we'll show how to troubleshoot those.
Fist of all open up the email you received to join the team. And just tap accept and
that will take you right to testflightapp.com where you can either sign in with an existing
account or create a new account.
In this case I'll create a new account to show you the whole process. And when you sign
up you can optionally sign up as a developer if you want, but if you're just testing then
you don't need to worry about it.
Once you've signed up, you get this congratulations screen where you are now a member of whichever
team. In this case, the Optimus team.
So now that you've accepted the invite and joined the team as a tester you'll be prompted
to connect your device.
If you don't see this screen, you might see the app screen with no apps listed in which
case you should press the connect a device button or through the menu go to Device Information
and Connect Current Device.
If you're setting up multiple devices you'll want to log in to test flightapp.com on all
of those different devices and go through this process.
So we're going to tap on connect current device.
This will install the provisioning profile.
Lets reconnect this device.
It takes you into your setting, asks you if you want to install the profile. You do.
It takes a few minutes to install the profile, so just press done when it's complete. It
will take you back to the browser and refresh.
In the video I fast forwarded it to save time.
Now you can see that your device has been successfully connected. And so what that has
done, is it's taken your devices information, sent it to the development team so that they
can add it to the profile and send you a build to test.
If you got to view all apps, you'll most likely see an empty screen. Because no app have been
assigned to you yet.
And so you wait for the next email from the developer with your invitation to test their
app.
Here we can see that the developer has sent us an invite to test the Optimus app version
1.0 build number 42.
From here we can see an icon, the version number and what's new in this application.
Lets go install the application. That will take us to testflightapp.com
And now we have the option to install the application.
And now you can see the application icon and the waiting screen in that progress bar along
the bottom.
This is often where you will get in to problems.
If that progress bar doesn't complete, it will give you a warning that application could
not be installed. That's very likely because the provisioning profile hasn't been properly
installed on your device.
In that case go back to testflightapp.com, go to the menu to Device Information and reconnect
your device.
Now the app is properly installed. So I can go ahead and launch the application and test
freely.
On the developer side they can see that you have successfully downloaded and installed
the application and you can report any issues back to them.