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On CommCare HQ, Publishing refers to the process of making a new version of your application, determining which version of the application your users should be using, and sending the application to the a mobile device. |
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After building form(s) in the application builder and once you are ready to test out your application, navigate to the Publish (or Release) page. You can access this page by selecting the Application Name at the top left hand side of the page.
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Publish an Application to a Phone
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If you click on the Deploy button for an application you will see several options for deploying:
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CommCareODK for Android (ODK): Installing CommCare on Android Deviceshttps://dimagi.atlassian.net/wiki/x/-wXKfw
Logging into your application: In order to log into an application you must use a mobile worker account. Information on creating mobile worker accounts is at Create and Manage CommCare Mobile Workers
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Updating your application: Read more here: Update Your Application.
Checkpoint Builds for Application Building
While you are application building, it can be a good idea to create "checkpoint" builds throughout the process. Checkpoint builds are created to provide stable checkpoints in the application development process in case serious problems necessitate the need to revert an application completely.
For example, if you are actively building and testing a complex application, it may be a good idea to periodically deploy (but not release) a stable build. In the notes, you can write "this is a checkpoint build as of [date and time] by [your name]". Now, if you continue app building and run into errors that you are unable to fix or pinpoint why they are happening, you always have this checkpoint build you can revert to. You can revert an application by clicking on the "Revert to this Version" button on the application deployment page as shown below:
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This will change your application (including all forms and application settings) back to the way it was when you created this checkpoint build.