Wednesday, June 15, 2011

[android-developers] Re: Implementing Auto-Update of an Application

Alternatively, on start up use the (unofficial) Market API to check if
there is a newer version of your app available and if there is present
the user with a dialog offering to take them to the Market to update.


On Jun 15, 11:55 pm, Nikolay Elenkov <nikolay.elen...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Chris <crehb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I thought Market can also update an app automatically when a new version is
> > pushed out, or am I living in 2009 still?
>
> The user has to opt in for this, and most people don't bother.
> Update notifications from Market are not too reliable either.
>
> As for the original question, just put a text file with the newest
> version at some publicly accessible URL. You can use Dropbox
> or Google code, or S3, no need to run your own server.

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