Using Mobile Administrator to Manage and Distribute Mobile Applications
Mobile Administrator allows you to manage and distribute your mobile applications. Mobile Administrator provides an app store where users can browse the app catalog to select applications to install. Mobile Administrator can send push notifications to users when updates are available for their installed applications.
Mobile Administrator also allows you to set up build nodes that you can use to remotely build a mobile application. You can set up build nodes that run Mobile Designer.
Mobile Designer provides a Mobile Administrator plug-in. Using the Mobile Administrator plug-in, you can:
Upload applications you create using
Mobile Designer to the
Mobile Administrator app store.
In this situation, you create and build your mobile application locally on your own machine. Then, use the plug-in to upload the final binaries to Mobile Administrator.
Remotely build applications using a
Mobile Administrator build node and make the resulting applications available from the
Mobile Administrator app store.
In this situation, you can use Mobile Designer to code mobile applications locally on your own machine. Then, using the Mobile Administrator plug-in, you transmit your source code to Mobile Administrator. Mobile Administrator, in turn, remotely builds your application on a build node running Mobile Designer. The resulting final binaries are made available in the Mobile Administrator app store.
When your Mobile Designer applications are in the Mobile Administrator app store, users can install Mobile Designer mobile applications from the app store and can receive push notifications when you make updates available. Using Mobile Administrator application-level permissions, you can make test builds available to only members of a development team, while giving users who want a production-ready application access to the latest stable version of the application.
To use the
Mobile Administrator plug-in, be sure to perform the setup described in
Requirements for Using the
Mobile Administrator Plug-in for a Project. After you have completed the setup, see the following for instructions for how to use the plug-in for uploading applications and remotely building applications:
