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Apple Developer Program

Sometime in week 8 you will be uploading your final project to TestFlight so you can share it with other people.

During development of you iOS app, you want to try and get feedback from users as early and frequently as possible. To test your app on your iPhone, you just plug your phone into your Mac and run the Xcode project. But how can you run your app on other people's devices for testing? What if you're testers are spread out across the world?

TestFlight Beta Testing is an Apple product that makes it easy to invite users to test your iOS apps so you can get feedback and make changes before you release it to the App Store.

TestFlight Beta Testing makes it easy to invite users to test your iOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps before you release them on the App Store. You can invite up to 2,000 testers using just their email address. -- https://developer.apple.com/testflight/

Sharing apps through TestFlight requires you to be enrolled in apple's developer program, so you're assigment is to enroll yourself.

Create a Developer Account

Before you can enroll, you first need to sign up for a developer account. Go to https://developer.apple.com/account/, click Create an Apple ID and setup your account.

Enroll

Once you have a developer account, it's time to enroll in apple's developer program. Go to https://developer.apple.com/programs/enroll/ and click on Start Your Enrollment at the bottom of the page. Sign in with your developer account and follow apple's instructions. The final step will require you to setup a yearly payment of C$ 119 to apple, that you can cancel at any time.

iTunes Connect

Once you're successfully enrolled, you will be able to access iTunes Connect. You must be able to access your iTunes Connect account before you can upload your final project to TestFlight.

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