How to Implement In-App Update API Flow To Your Android App | Mysupporttec

Being an Android developer, we want our users to have the latest version of our app. But in real life, only a few users have the updated version of our app. One of the major reason for not updating the app is that the users don’t have much time to go to the play store to search for updates and then download and install the update.

To address the same problem, Google has proposed an in-app update system to update the apps. In this feature, you can update your app on your user’s mobile by taking permission from the user. The user can use the app during downloading the update. So, now user need not go to the play store to find the update for your app.

In this blog, we will learn how to implement the in-app update in our app. So, let’s get started.

How to Implement In-App Update Feature to Your Android App

In-app update

The in-app update is a feature of Android Play Core library, that allows you to provide a prompt to the user to offer them an in-app update for a particular app. In simple words, it provides an option to the user which says that an update for the app is available and the user can select if they are interested in updating the app or not.

Not only that, it provides an option to download the update of the app in the background and once downloaded, install the update and restart the app and the user don’t have to do anything.

The Play Core Library offers two ways of implementing the in-app update in our mobile application. Let’s look at them, one by one:

• Flexible(UpdateManagerConstant.FLEXIBLE) (default) — User can use the app during update download, and installation. Restart needs to be triggered by user.

• Immediate (UpdateManagerConstant.IMMEDIATE)— User will be blocked until download and installation is finished. Restart is triggered automatically.

Implementing in-app updates on Android

Step 1: Add jitpack to your root level build.gradle, at the end of repositories.

allprojects { repositories { maven { url "https://jitpack.io" } } }
 

Step 2: Add the dependency to app level build.gradle.'

dependencies { implementation 'com.github.SanojPunchihewa:InAppUpdater:1.0.5' }

Step 3: Initialize the UpdateManager in your onCreate method of the activity.

// Declare the UpdateManager UpdateManager mUpdateManager; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); // Initialize the Update Manager with the Activity and the Update Mode mUpdateManager = UpdateManager.Builder(this).mode(UpdateManagerConstant.FLEXIBLE); // Call start() to check for updates and install them mUpdateManager.start(); }

Prepare Your Apk And Enjoy It.

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