Delivering Mobile Apps
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Once your mobile app has reached a stable state, you should distribute it to your users.
In OutSystems, there are two ways to distribute a mobile app:
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Generate a mobile application package (IPA and APK) for a target mobile operating system (iOS and Android). An OutSystems cloud service generates the packages for you, so you don't need the SDKs, only the configuration for the apps. Check the iOS and Android documentation to learn more about native builds and distribution to the Apple App Store and Google Play.
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Activate the progressive web app (PWA) distribution. PWA is a lightweight distribution option for mobile apps, as it doesn't depend on the app stores and uses modern browser capabilities.
Customize Your Mobile App
- Customize your mobile app regarding device characteristics and mobile platform, thus fulfilling business requirements or improve the experience of your users.
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Generate and Distribute Your Mobile App
- You can generate the mobile app package for your mobile app and distribute it for tests purposes or, when you have completed work on your app, generate a production-ready version of your app to distribute to a selected group of end users or to publish in mobile app stores.
- Featured Article:
Mobile Apps Build Service
- Learn how to enable and manage the service that generates the mobile application packages of your apps, and how to access app build logs.
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Articles in this Section
- Mobile App Update Scenarios
- Understand how automatic updates to mobile apps work when you click on "1-Click Publish".
- Technical Preview - Configure mobile apps updates distribution
- Mobile apps updates distribution setting lets you control how the apps update on user devices. Select store-only updates or hybrid updates. The store-only updates go through Google Play or the Apple App Store, and always update the native shell. In hybrid updates, apps can update the logic inside the existing native shell automatically, or require an update of native shell.
- Distribute as a progressive web app (PWA)
- Develop a progressive web app (PWA) by creating a mobile app and toggling on the option to distribute the app as PWA. Try your app in Android and iOS.
- Harden the protection of mobile apps with AppShield
- Protect your mobile apps against tampering. OutSystems AppShield hardens the native mobile build, enabling the app to detect attempts of modification and misuse.
- Compliance with Third Party Licenses
- Learn how to be compliant with the licensing requirements of the third party components used by your application.