Building Your Own Private App Store (AppStateOn, #1.3)

E-Book Description: Building Your Own Private App Store: A Developer‘s Guide to Secure App Distribution Building and operating your own private app store is no longer a luxury-it is a core competency for modern engineering teams that ship internal or B2B mobile apps. This hands-on guide walks intermediate and senior developers, DevOps engineers, and IT administrators through the full lifecycle of ing, deploying, and securing a private mobile-app distribution platform for iOS and Android. You‘ll learn how to navigate Apple enterprise programs, Android managed distribution, modern signing pipelines, zero-trust security controls, and production-grade CI/CD automation. The book delivers architecture blueprints, real-world case studies, security checklists, diagrams, and ready-to-run code samples for every phase of the system. Whether your goal is to replace MDM for internal rollouts, distribute apps to partners, or run a fully branded enterprise storefront, this guide gives you the operational and security maturity expected from top-tier mobile organizations. Packed with vendor-neutral guidance, actionable CLI commands, microservice patterns, Terraform/Kubernetes manifests, licensing servers, analytics pipelines, and governance models, this is the reference you‘ll keep open on your second monitor. What You‘ll Learn How to and operate secure internal app-distribution systems for iOS and Android When to leverage MDM, Managed Google Play, Apple B2B, Closed Testing, or full custom storefronts How to build OTA manifests, CDN-signed URLs, app-version pinning, and rollout controls Implementing OWASP MASVS-aligned hardening, certificate pinning, app attestation, and RASP integrations Building CI/CD pipelines with Fastlane, GitHub Actions, notarization, semantic release, and crash-symbolication Creating OIDC-based access control, JWT download tokens, licensing servers, audit logs, and geo-restriction Achieving GDPR/SOX-compliant governance, billing models, and revocation flows Operating blue-green deployments, phased rollouts, and long-term maintenance policies Who This Book Is For Mobile developers shipping internal or B2B applications DevOps engineers building distribution pipelines IT administrators managing enterprise device fleets Engineering managers establishing governance & compliance Architects ing secure internal platforms Five Key Benefits Production-grade patterns: Every chapter includes runnable code, infra manifests, and real deployment workflows. Security-first approach: Aligns with OWASP MASVS, NIST guidance, and modern zero-trust expectations. Vendor-neutral clarity: Understand differences between Apple, Google, MDM vendors, and custom solutions. Operational maturity: Covers analytics, crash handling, licensing, billing, and long-term lifecycle governance. Blueprints for reuse: Use the included templates, Fastfiles, GitHub workflows, and Terraform stacks to launch fast.