Is it possible to change ownership of a Heroku add-on? If so, how can we do that? In fact, I want to move an add-on from one Heroku account to another.
Let me elaborate my scenario a bit more to be clear.
I created an add-on with my test provider acount. Is there any way that I can delete the add-on from my test account and create the add-on with the same name with my official provider account? As a matter of fact, there is nothing about deleting the add-on or moving it under a different account in the Provider's documentation.
A Google search lead me to this support page, which says
This currently depends on whether or not the app has any paid resources associated with it.
For an app with no paid resources, you can use "heroku sharing:transfer" from the command line to transfer the app to a new owner.
For an app with paid resources, you have two options.
1) Remove all paid resources, transfer the app like a free app, then have the new owner re-add the paid resources.
2) Both the old and new owners should file a support tickets at http://support.heroku.com authorizing the transfer and with the new owner accepting charges for the app.
Also check out the Transferring apps and Collaborating with Others articles on Heroku's Dev Centre.
Since you're talking about ownership of add-ons as an add-on provider and not just ownership of your heroku app, I would say you should probably contact the heroku add-on support team via email. See this page here for an email address. Hopefully as an add-on provider if you submit a help ticket they'll be able to help you as well.
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If I ask the app development company to host an app on their App store or their Google play store accounts, does this make them the legal owners of the app?
I want to stay the legal owner of the app. Does this affect my ownership rights by any means?
To ensure ownership of the App concept, IP and confidentiality:-
- Sign a IP rights document with the Dev Company.
- Sign a NDA with the Dev Company.
You might need more documents depending upon the laws of your country, so this step is not possible without consulting a lawyer.
Also, you need to ensure that:-
- You get all the source code with proper documentation.
- Also, make sure there are no encrypted files/libraries present in the source code.
Since, 2013 Apps can also be transferred between accounts if you happen to create one later.
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On the flip side
Why do you want to get into such a mess?
It is easy and cheap to create a Developer account. Just some straighforward paperwork and not more that 100$ for each platform (compared to the amount of resources you have already invested in creating the App)
Once you have the account, give the Dev company Developer access to your account. They can upload the App to your account with it. Once this is done and you have also ensured the you have all the source code, you have no dependencies on the Dev company.
I am developing an app that uses Directory API to create user accounts within Google Apps for Work. I have been testing this on a Free (legacy) account but now I need to test adding and removing domains, which Free account doesn't support. I don't want to get a paid account just yet and rack up a huge bill by adding and removing accounts in testing. I also don't see a way to get a sandbox/developer account to test this out. How can I accomplish this?
We have a google-marketplace-app which is already published and actively used by consumers. But there is a new requirement, where we need to block any new installations of the app without impacting the existing consumers.
Is there a straight forward option to achieve this? Or do we have to unpublish existing app and republish with some specific options (i.e: "visibility-options")?
The ideal expectation from our perspective is not to let existing app consumers/domain-admins to perform anything on this regard. But only that existing domains needs to whitelisted from our end (by app developers) to allow installation of the app to admins of those domains, where as any other domains shouldn't have install access (even with direct app installation link).
Appreciate any recommendations on this.
In the Chrome Developer Dashboard there is an option to add trusted testers to the app. The accounts that are in that list will have the visibility to the application.
You can also create a group and add that group to the list, and the people inside that group will also have visibility to the app.
Here you can find the documentation related to this. Hope this helps.
I am trying to recruit some beta testers for an app of mine using Test Flight. None of the testers will be in house employees or anything like that- just some folks I know who would like to help test my app (I'm a hobbyist and don't have any employees anyways).
When I went to add somme users in ITC for test flight it made me assign them a role. The only role that made sense to me was "Technical". However, I am worried that assigning somebody I don't know well the technical role will allow them to make changes to my app descriptions, reject or submit binaries, and things like that.
Is that something I need to worry about? Is there a way to assign a user the role of JUST tester without giving them access to my apps via ITC?
Apple's documentation does not seem to explicitly state what users with various roles can do.
No, this isn't really safe, and it's not a good idea to give the 'Technical' role in iTunesConnect to someone you don't fully trust.
The iOS 8 TestFlight system has a way to setup external testers, see the "External testers" section on https://developer.apple.com/app-store/Testflight/
The downside is that your app has to go through the review team each time you make any major changes before it goes to external testers (hence if the tester is really a close part of your team it is still advantageous to add them as an internal tester by giving them the technical role). The reviews don't take as long as a normal App Store review.
Alternatives (that don't involve a review) are Crashlytics Beta Distribution (owned by Twitter) or HockeyApp (owned by Microsoft). There are other services too, or you can host IPAs on your own website (using the mechanism designed for enterprise apps) but generally doing this means you miss out on other features you get when using the more integrated solutions.
Short answer: no. It is not safe to add testers with technical role.
Long answer:
According to iTunes Connect, the user must have Admin or Tech.
After reading the comments, I will complete my answer with this.
There are Internal Testers and External Testers.
External Testers are not available as of yet (see https://developer.apple.com/app-store/Testflight/).
Only Internal Testers are allowed by now (which means, your testers WILL be able to change your apps).
Since you need the user to have minimum rights, you should add the user as Technical (the less risky, but still dangerous).
I see that there is a checkbox in iTC that lets you enable the Internal Tester role:
What permissions will the users have? Theoretically, they will only have access to the beta versions (but that is a guess, since I have not tried it yet). You could create an account for a fake internal tester and check that you can't modify apps with that role.
A technical users will have access to the 'My Apps' section of iTunes Connect. This means that they can change the description of an app in the app store, update prices and even remove an app from sale.
There is no way to have a user with just an 'internal tester' role. That's what external testers are for.
It is possible to grant someone access to test as an internal tester, but not have them be able to log into iTunes Connect.
Create an iTunes Connect User with the "Technical" role with an email address that they can receive. Then have them accept it with a different Apple ID.
As long as they cannot log into iTunes Connect with the email address you added as the "Technical" user, they cannot misbehave.
I went to scale my Heroku rails app, like I normally do, but WHAM! Heroku changed the privileges on me:
Scaling worker processes... done, now running 1
! Scaling an app as a collaborator is not supported; it’ll be removed soon. Please see: http://bit.ly/PWf1tR.
According to Heroku's collaborators privileges page:
Collaborator privileges
All actions are supported for collaborators as they are for app owners
except:
Scaling dynos
Adding or removing paid add-ons
Deleting or renaming the app
Viewing invoices
These actions are only supported for app owners.
Okay, so what now? Everyone on my team needs to scale the app and I'm not excited about everyone sharing the owner credentials.
Is there a way --Heroku feature, 3rd party tool, total hack, etc.-- that collaborators can scale Heroku apps since the recent privilege change?
Solved! Heroku's response to my question:
Based on feedback from you and other users we've decided to avoid
making any changes to the collaborator semantics until we're able to
offer a stronger alternative path for managing access control. The
deprecation notice will be removed shortly.
They were super helpful and apologized for the inconvenience too.