Enterprise distribution of mobile applications for Confluence

Description

This plugin provides a macro for enterprise distribution of mobile applications. So you can use Confluence as a kind of in-house application store for your mobile enterprise applications. Simple add the binary of your application as attachment to a page and include the macro call. Visitors will see informations about the application on the page, including an installation link for over the air distribution.

iOS Support

The plugin supports the iOS App Store Package (.ipa) format. So the plugin serves as frontend for Apple's mechanism for Enterprise App distribution (see the corresponding document in the iOS Developer Library). You only have to upload the .ipa binary as attachment. A wirless manifest file is not needed, because the plugin generates it on the fly.

Important: the plugin only helps to use Confluence as frontend for the distribution of iOS applications. You still need the normal development tools, an developer account and have to use the standard provisining mechanism in order to generate the applications.

iOS App Icons

iOS uses a special file format for saving the Icons. As far as I know, this format is patented. So at the moment it is not possible for the plugin to extract the icon of the application and a default icon is used instead. If you want to show the real icon in the infobox, just attach the icon as PNG file to the page. The file must have the same name, as the binary file of the application with the exception of the file extension.

Android Support

Android support will follow with one of the next releases of this plugin.

Features

• Confluence macro for displaying informations about a mobile app on Confluence pages
• Support for Apple's enterprise app distribution mechanism
• Auto generation of wireless manifest files
• Custom app icons