How to force a required app update on both iOS and Android?

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#1

Hi,

i am ready to release my app in both Apple Store and iPlay.  I expect to have frequent update to my app.

How do i force users to update their apps when a new version is released?

thank you

#2

Am I posting this in the wrong forum?

#3

I don’t think it a good idea to *force* people to upgrade, however you could implement some functionality that gets the latest version of your app and presents a dialog box if the current version the user has is older than the latest version.

One way to implement it could be by downloading a JSON file from a server which contains the latest version and checking that with the version on the device.

#4

thanks ingemar,

that was my same thought.  i was just wondering if corona had an internal feature for this.

do you know the proper way to call an install/update in apple store and google play?

#5

You could use native.showPopup() and pass “appStore” as an argument.

http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/native/showPopup.html

#6

thanks ingemar,

great i’ll do that.

#7

Am I posting this in the wrong forum?

#8

I don’t think it a good idea to *force* people to upgrade, however you could implement some functionality that gets the latest version of your app and presents a dialog box if the current version the user has is older than the latest version.

One way to implement it could be by downloading a JSON file from a server which contains the latest version and checking that with the version on the device.

#9

thanks ingemar,

that was my same thought.  i was just wondering if corona had an internal feature for this.

do you know the proper way to call an install/update in apple store and google play?

#10

You could use native.showPopup() and pass “appStore” as an argument.

http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/native/showPopup.html

#11

thanks ingemar,

great i’ll do that.