Appbuild

Host your iOS/Android apps for an easy installation on allowed user devices.

Features

Admin/user interface to manage your apps, builds and users
Available languages: English, French
Token protected applications (your build files aren’t exposed to the internet and download links expire after a few minutes)
X-Sendfile support to download builds more efficiently
API (still in beta) to access data from somewhere else than the admin interface

Glossary

Application (or app): app general info, bound to several builds
Build: application version which can be downloaded and installed on a device
User: account identified by login and password, needed to be able to see applications and builds
Downloader: user who can only download builds of application he has access to
Admin: user who can create new applications/builds and manage the ones he has access to
SuperAdmin: user who can do everything (including adding SuperAdmins)

Installation

Appbuild is a “simple” Symfony 3.3 application.

Server requirements

Linux (it may works on Windows/macOS but you can’t blame us if it doesn’t)
php 5.6.19+ (php 7+ is recommended)
MySQL (it should also work using MariaDB, if not => please let us know)
Node.js along with npm (it works great with npm 5.7.1 for instance)
HTTP server supporting PHP (such as nginx + php-fpm, etc.)

Application setup

From your server (preferably not as root):

# copy sources from GitHub
cd /var/www
git clone https://github.com/LinkValue/Appbuild.git
cd Appbuild
# configure application
# by copying "app/config/parameters.yml.dist" to "app/config/parameters.yml"
# and editing "app/config/parameters.yml" to fit your context
# install dependencies and assets
# a Makefile (see https://www.gnu.org/software/make) is present to build the project from sources,
# so just run the following command:
make prod-deploy

Notice that you’ll probably also need to setup correct file permissions on the var directory, see this guide to know what you can do.

HTTP server configuration

The HTTP server configuration looks like any other Symfony application, just keep in mind the following points:

https is required to download iOS applications (if you don’t want to pay for a SSL certificate, we suggest to use Certbot which is a Let’s Encrypt wrapper to generate official SSL certificates)
you may want to increase the max upload size (either in PHP and HTTP server configuration) to be able to upload large build files
X-Sendfile feature is supported to download protected build files, therefore it’s recommended to configure your HTTP server to use it, if you don’t, PHP will serve these files instead (which will increase memory usage)

More documentation for specific HTTP servers:

nginx + php-fpm

API documentation

WARNING

This API is still in BETA, it may be strongly updated.
Please be really careful before updating this project if you were already using the API.

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Before using the API, you must read this documentation about how to be authenticated on the API side.

Contributing

See our CONTRIBUTING guide