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Hi and welcome back.

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Today we're going to talk
about Test Flight.

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So what is test flight?

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Test Flight is Apple's official platform

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that allows you to test and distribute
iOS apps before they're released.

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It's like having your own testing
environment where you can try out your

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app, uncover any bugs, and gather
valuable feedback from your testers.

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So why do you need test flight?

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Well, testing your app solely
on your own device is limited.

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Testlight opens up
a world of possibilities.

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Firstly, it enables you to test your app
on variety of devices with different

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configurations, screen sizes,
and software versions.

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This ensures your app works
seamlessly across different iPhones.

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Secondly, Test Flight provides

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a controlled and secure
environment for testing.

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You can invite specific individuals
to become Testers,

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ensuring your app remains confidential and
protected until it's ready for release.

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Let's talk about the problems
Test Flight solves.

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Firstly, it simplifies
the distribution process.

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Instead of manually installing your app
on each tester's device,

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test Flight streamlines this by providing
an easy to use app distribution mechanism.

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Testers can install the Test Flight app

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and receive invitations to download
and test your application directly.

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They can provide valuable feedback

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through the Test Flight app,
allowing you to gather information

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on crashes, UI, Glitches,
or functionality problems they encounter.

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This feedback helps you improve your

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app's quality before releasing
it to a wider audience.

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In the next videos, we're going to explore

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how to upload our
application to Test Flight.

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To begin, you'll need
an Apple Developer account.

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So make sure that until you dive

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into the next video, you have
the Apple Developer account.

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Once our app is uploaded to Test Flight,

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we can start testing it on our own devices
and invite others to join in as well.

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But until we do that, for the time being,
I just want to quickly show you how your

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Test Flight section could look like
in your Apple Developer account.

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So right now you're looking
at my Apple Developer account,

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and it is not the same account
that we created together.

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It is my old account where I keep
my application draft that I have created.

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So I'm just going to go to my apps here

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and you're going to see a bunch
of application drafts I have created.

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So let's say that we go to.

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The first application
that I have ever created.

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It was supposed to be an art application.

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And then here you're going
to see different sections.

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So this App Store section will allow you
to choose a build that you have uploaded

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of your application and submitted
for review to the Apple Store team.

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So that you could actually publish it.

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And what we want to discuss is

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particularly this tab, test Flight tab.

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So if we go here,

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we're going to see that I have uploaded
some builds of my application.

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They have expired because
every build that

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is not submitted to be reviewed by Apple
Store team expires every three months.

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And I have uploaded this a couple of years
ago, so they have already expired.

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But when I created these build,
I wanted to share it with some people,

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mainly my friends, so that they could take
a look and let me know how intuitive

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my app is, whether they
experienced any crashes.

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And I could have found the feedback
here if they had reported any crashes.

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Through their Test Flight application.

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And I could have received
this feedback right here.

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I could have seen what issues my friends
experienced when testing my application.

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If you want to create an internal testing

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group, you can do so here and create
some kind of name, for example, Friends.

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And then you can just press on this button

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and fill out some fields such as their
email and name,

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and you can send out an invite and they're
going to receive a special code that will

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allow the to access your application
on their phones directly.

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So right now, I have two testers set up.

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I'm just not going to go to this tab
because you're going to see their emails.

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And the idea is that using these testers,
you get as much feedback as possible.

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Plus, once you upload your builds,

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they're automatically going
to be available on Test Flight.

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So if you wanted to test it.

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Yourself, you could do so as well.

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You would see all your builds right here.

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Any binary files that you have uploaded

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which represent your builds
would be presented here.

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And then how you actually release it is

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you go to the App Store tab and you
would add a build from here.

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You could choose a build,

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press on Done, and then fill out some
of the information that is required

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by Apple, save it, and then add for review
and submit it to the App Store review.

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Okay, so this is what Test Flight.

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Is, and Test Flight application itself is

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available to be downloaded
on the App Store.

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So your friends could just go to App Store
on their phone, download it so that they

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can access your application
using the code that you provide to them.

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So that's all for this video.

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I just quickly wanted to explain what

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Test Flight is because we are going to be
using Test Flight in the upcoming videos

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when trying to deploy our
application to Apple Store.

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Now, if you still don't have

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Apple Developer ID,
I just want to emphasize this again.

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You're not going to be able to deploy
your application to Test Flight.

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However, if you still want to practice how
to upload your builds,

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then you can just come back
to the Google Play Store video maybe,

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because the subscription
there is definitely cheaper.

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So once you have your application ready
and you actually want to deploy it,

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you can code back to the set of these
videos of deployment section and go

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through it again and make sure that you
are able to upload your application

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on test flight as long as you want
to make it available to iOS users as well.

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Thanks so much for watching.

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See you in the next video.