As engineers, we generally need clients to refresh their applications to the most recent form rapidly. We need everybody to utilize the most recent highlights remembered for the updates. Google informs Android clients at whatever point refreshes are accessible for specific applications. Nonetheless, this is principally for clients who have empowered the auto-update highlight. It is, hence, significant for clients to know when your application has another update accessible.
Presentation
Assume a client has your application introduced on their cell phone. However, you have added new basic highlights or fixed a bug to the application. The main way the client can get to these functionalities is by refreshing the application. A few clients miss the mark on interest or time to open the Google Play store and update their applications. This implies that they will require some investment prior to changing to the most recent adaptation.
To tackle this issue, Google I/O presented an in-application update API. This API cautions clients at whatever point you have another rendition on the Google Play store. The API presents an update UI inside your application to inform clients to refresh to the recently accessible application adaptation. Clients don’t need to open the Google Play store to start the update.
Objective
In this aide, we will find out about Google’s in-application updates and carry out them in our applications. We will examine the two strategies to carry out in-application refreshes: prompt and adaptable.
Quick
The quick update presents a hindering full-screen UI. Whenever a client begins the update, he/she can’t utilize the application until the update is introduced. The application will consequently restart when the update is finished. This strategy is favoured when the update presents basic functionalities.
Adaptable
An adaptable update permits clients to cooperate with the application while the update happens behind the scenes. When the update is downloaded, the application will provoke the client to restart the application. The application will then, at that point, introduce the update and open the application to the frontal area. It is favoured when the update has minor changes that don’t influence the application’s basic functionalities.
Requirements
This guide expects you have earlier information on Android application advancement utilizing Android Studio and Java.
At the hour of composing this aide, the Google Play Core variant was 1.8.3. It is prescribed to have the most recent adaptation. Check for the most recent adaptation here.
Foundation
Setting the in-application update is straightforward. The Google Core API executes every significant usefulness. A client doesn’t need to initiate auto-refreshes in the Google Play store. The API will deal with the update stream in any application that has carried out this in-application update idea.
Prior to taking care of the update type, either adaptable or prompt, you ought to see how the API functions. How about we examine a portion of the vital classes and capacities that assist us with setting off an update stream.
To check on the off chance that there is an update accessible in the Google Play store, we need to make a case of appUpdateManager. It speaks with the AppUpdateInfo object. The item sets off a far off correspondence with the Google Play store. It holds the property results and status of any suitable update. The outcome is an assortment of information for the updated accessibility, for example, the accessible application rendition. The information will then, at that point, be utilized to decide if the API should start the update stream.
AppUpdateInfo has the accompanying techniques:
update availability processes the accompanying:
- UPDATE_AVAILABLE: This checks whether an application has another rendition accessible in the Google Play store.
- DEVELOPER_TRIGGERED_UPDATE_IN_PROGRESS: This handles a situation where a client started the update cycle but shut the application while the update was in the works. update availability() will return the condition of the update progress.
- install status returns the worth of the updated achievement. install status() is a case of installStateUpdatedListener snared to the appUpdateManager. It returns the upsides of the update status, for example,
- DOWNLOADED: When the client hits the update, the application will initially download the APK. install status() sets the activity that should be done when the APK has been downloaded.
- Introduced – install status() sets the activity when the recently accessible update has been introduced.
- To set off the update stream, we first actually look at the update availability() to decide whether there is an update accessible. The returned worth ought to be UPDATE_AVAILABLE assuming that the designer has pushed new highlights.
- Then, we will approve whether the update type is permitted with the capacity isUpdateTypeAllowed() and pass AppUpdateType, which can be IMMEDIATE or FLEXIBLE.
- We have decided if an update is accessible or not (the condition of the accessible update). In the event that the update type is permitted, appUpdateManager will return the update status from the AppUpdateInfo values and trigger the update stream with startUpdateFlowForResult.
We pass the accompanying boundaries to startUpdateFlowForResult to begin the update stream UI:
- The appUpdateInfo that we recently got from the Google Play store.
- The refreshed stream that we need to set off. Recently passed to isUpdateTypeAllowed as AppUpdateType that can be IMMEDIATE or FLEXIBLE.
- The execution setting in the current movement.
- A solicitation code to get Inactivity results, for example, – If a client dropped the update. – If the update is OK. – If the update stream fizzled.
- With that, we are prepared to finish the update with a complete update.
Executing adaptable update stream
This stream doesn’t obstruct a client from connecting with the application. At the point when the update is free, the client downloads the update APK, which happens behind the scenes. When the download is finished, the client will be provoked to introduce the recently downloaded application to welcome the new reports ready.