Overview
This chapter explains how to add apps to your app store and how to sort them into categories.
To add new apps (including all app-specific rights for the newly created app) and to manage apps (including all permissions for the app), you need the site-level permissions
Add Apps and
Manage Apps. See also
Overview of Site-Level Permissions.
It is also possible to grant permissions for single apps to certain users. These are the so-called application-level permissions. When a user has been granted one or more of these permissions, the user will also be able to manage certain aspects of the app, for example, edit the metadata of the app or build a new app version. See also
Overview of Application-Level Permissions.
You can add apps with ready-to-run app versions to Mobile Administrator and you can also add apps for which the app versions are still to be built. In the latter case, you have to set up build nodes and create build configurations for all platforms on which the app is to be made available. The app version for a platform will be built when you launch the corresponding build configuration.
When you build app versions with Mobile Administrator, you can make available the source code in two different ways:
You can upload the source code as a zip file (for example, when you do not use a repository and all of your files are stored locally). The uploaded zip file will then be used when a new build is launched.
You can instruct
Mobile Administrator to fetch the source code automatically from a repository each time a new build is launched. In this case, you have to specify all required information such as the URL to the repository and your credentials.
In addition to the apps that you have developed yourself, you can also mirror apps that have been published in a vendor store such as the Apple App Store or Google Play. In the case of Apple, you can also purchase apps in volume so that your users do not have to pay for them.
You can remotely install and update apps over the air on the devices on which the mobile device management has been allowed, and you can send push notifications to registered devices.
Usage information on an app also provided. This is helpful if you want to optimize an app.
