Best public solution for apk/obb hosting for Meta Quest for Business

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Hello,

I am looking to setup my VR app (apk + obb) to be hosted publicly and distributed to enterprise headsets via Meta Quest for Business. Unfortunately it looks like Meta Quest for Business does not provide a way to upload my apk and obb like I can for the Meta Quest store/app lab. Has anyone found a good solution that allows for automatic download like Meta Quest for Business requires to host their large apk and obb's that meets Meta's requirements?

In some of their documentation they showed folks using https://rawgit.com/ but it looks like that service is being shut down and I'm not sure looking at the alternatives rawgit.com recommends if they will work for Meta.

I have my apk and obb backed up on a public github with LFS (that autodownloads for me and is not SHA encrypted).

But no matter what hosting solution I try Meta Quest for business scans the app and says there was an error:

An error occurred when scanning the app file for Ace

Double-check the app file link and try again.

Thanks

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ChrisAceXRAnswer

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Okay so looks like the solution for me was that I needed to upload my apk and obb as part of a PRIVATE app on https://developer.oculus.com/ . Once doing that the links in developer center to download the apk and obb can be used for the form when creating a new app in Meta Quest for Business.

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ChrisAceXRAuthorAnswer

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Okay so looks like the solution for me was that I needed to upload my apk and obb as part of a PRIVATE app on https://developer.oculus.com/ . Once doing that the links in developer center to download the apk and obb can be used for the form when creating a new app in Meta Quest for Business.

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ChrisAceXRAuthor

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Please note the app can be private or public and this will still work I found out.

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metadev1988

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Okay thanks. How do I access applab exactly? First time hearing of it.

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metadev1988

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ChrisAceXR I am using work for meta at a school and wanting to push out the YouTube VR app to all the headsets in shared mode. We have multiple users per headset. Are you able to assist me in doing this? I have an apk for YouTube VR and know I need to host the apk file and use the link to where the file is hosted for the headset to download and install.

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ChrisAceXRAuthor

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Hey metadev1988 best solution I've found so far is just submitting an app to Meta Quest AppLab and then using the download links from the console pages there for the build in the apk/obb links on Meta Quest for business. Not sure if that way will allow you to upload Youtube's apk's though. May need another hosting solution that Meta can reach/allow.

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metadev1988

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ChrisAceXR can you tell me how I access AppLab? Thank you.

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metadev1988

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ChrisAceXR NM, I figured it out. Thanks.