Alternative Distribution Keys
Create and manage keys for an alternative app distribution.
Overview
As an alternative marketplace developer you create keys and JSON web tokens (JWTs) to authenticate and connect your marketplace to the apps distributed on your marketplace.
The alternative distribution key you upload to App Store Connect is a public key. Your alternative distribution key is assocaited with all alternative distribution apps in your account. You can optionally assocaite a key with a single althernative disitribution app by adding a relationship in the payload when calling Add an alternative distribution key. To learn more about creating this key, see Creating keys and establishing alternative marketplace connections.
The alternative distribution key ID, which you can find in the response body of the endpoint described in Read an app’s alternative distribution key is also a part of creating the JWT for Supplying an install verification token.
When using web distribution, you need to create an alternative distribution key, the private half of the key pair is used for install verification. To learn more about creating keys for web distribution, see Creating and configuring keys for web distribution. For more information, see Supplying an install verification token.
Topics
Creating and reading keys
Creating keys and establishing alternative marketplace connectionsCreating and configuring keys for web distributionAdd an alternative distribution keyList alternative distribution keysRead alternative distribution key informationGET /v1/apps/{id}/relationships/alternativeDistributionKeyRead an app’s alternative distribution keyRemove an alternative distribution key