Click Distribute to make the build available to testers.
To share links to specific releases with testers who have access
to those releases, click the Link icon to copy the release link to the
clipboard.
Once you distribute your build, it becomes available in the
App Distribution dashboard of the Firebase console for 150 days (five months).
When the build is 30 days from expiring, an expiration notice appears in both
the Firebase console and your tester's list of builds on their test device.
Testers who haven't been invited to test the app receive email invitations to
get started, and existing testers receive email notifications that a new build
is ready to test. To learn how to install the test
app, see Get set up as a tester.
You can monitor the status of each tester-whether they accepted the
invitation and whether they downloaded the app-in the Firebase console.
Testers have 30 days to accept an invitation to test the app before it expires.
When an invitation is 5 days from expiring, an expiration notice appears in the
Firebase console next to the tester on a release. An invitation can be
renewed by resending it using the drop-down menu on the tester row.
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