Best Distribution Method for Internal Promotional App
I have been asked to do an app for a client of mine who produces lighting for corporate buildings, they have a large binder that their sales force and resellers take out with them. They have spec sheets and photos of the lighting effects in them.
They want an app to replace the print costs but i am unsure whether something like this that is a promotional tool would be accepted by Apple for AppStore distribution.
I don't think Ad Hoc is the best option as i would need to mess around with provisioning profiles or limitations on distribution numbers.
An option i thought of this week was doing a web app with a cache manifest but due to there being about 100 products with 5-10 images each one, i feel this may be infeasible.
Does anyone thing an app like this will get rejected by Apple if i submit to the AppStore?
I have been asked to do an app for a client of mine who produces lighting for corporate buildings, they have a large binder that their sales force and resellers take out with them. They have spec sheets and photos of the lighting effects in them.
They want an app to replace the print costs but i am unsure whether something like this that is a promotional tool would be accepted by Apple for AppStore distribution.
I don't think Ad Hoc is the best option as i would need to mess around with provisioning profiles or limitations on distribution numbers.
An option i thought of this week was doing a web app with a cache manifest but due to there being about 100 products with 5-10 images each one, i feel this may be infeasible.
Does anyone thing an app like this will get rejected by Apple if i submit to the AppStore?
It would most likely be rejected. The app store guidelines are pretty clear that apps strictly for promotion will be rejected.
I'm going to say the best option is a web app. Cydia obviously won't allow most of their customers to even use it as they'll beed to be jailbroken, and ad-hoc doesn't seem like a viable option.
It may not be worth the $299 per year to the company, but if it was, you could use the iOS Developer Enterprise Program which enables you to distribute in-house without using the iTunes App Store. See:
It's unclear to me if it requires mucking around with provisioning profiles or not, but I'm sure it would (otherwise, other people would use it for ad-hoc distribution elsewhere).
It may not be worth the $299 per year to the company, but if it was, you could use the iOS Developer Enterprise Program which enables you to distribute in-house without using the iTunes App Store. See:
It's unclear to me if it requires mucking around with provisioning profiles or not, but I'm sure it would (otherwise, other people would use it for ad-hoc distribution elsewhere).
This seems like it would be perfect but it's only really viable without provisioning profiles. It must be fairly easy to setup otherwise how could they roll it out to staff across multiple sites for one business (like in some of their profiles).
Web app seems to be best option at the moment, but i'm unsure how many files can be cached on the phone via a cache manifest. Can the images be cached the first time they are accessed?
Best Distribution Method for Internal Promotional App
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