TestFlight Android Announces Open Beta for All Users
Today marks a very important day for TestFlight users everywhere. TestFlight has officially launched the open beta of Android for all users. After being asked on multiple occasions when this would happen, it’s finally here and should be exciting for all TestFlight users around. Seeing as there aren’t many alternatives to what TestFlight provides on Android as CEO Ben Satterfield explained :
“Our goal is not to be on every platform but to help developers better than other services on the platforms we do support,” he said. “Earlier this year we announced more than 300,000 apps uploaded on iOS alone. Given our base and the strong response to the private Android beta, we think developers will find it much easier to continue using our solution for managing beta-testing on both iOS and Android. “
Feedback thus far has indicated that users are happy with the services being made available to them. Satterfield does note however that, the differences between how testing works on iOS vs. Android actually aren’t all that different, at least based on initial impressions.
Also adding:
“The iOS and Android workflows are proving to be similar,” he said. “We actually were counting on this and created the Android workflow to have minimal changes in the UI so developers could onboard effortlessly. It seems to have worked as within the first 24 hours of the private beta we had roughly the same percentage of developers connect their build systems and automatically start uploading their APKs.”
With this update developers all around will have access to the app management tools including: distrubition, feedback reporting, and (on its way) the Android SDK to allow crash reporting too.
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