This weekend I finished work on the first version of Betan. It’s an application that allows me to easily distribute private copies of my Android applications to beta testers, clients and other developers.
Privately distributing Android applications to non-developers is something I’ve long found awkward and I’m really pleased to have a tool that makes it much more straightforward.
It consists of a small Java application to encrypt APK files for upload to a webserver, and a simple Android application for downloading and installing them.
I think the great thing about Betan is that it wouldn’t take much work to make it a shared tool for other Android developers; each developer would encrypt and upload their own apks; I would just need to maintain a list of publishers that I present to the user.
I’m currently gauging interest, so if any Android developers are interested in using Betan to distribute their Beta versions, just get in touch; it’s very basic at the moment, but with interest it could grow into something better.
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