Hello,
Is there in corona api’s any way to inform my app’s users that a new version has been released??
My app has been developed only for android.
thanks!
It is the responsibility of the Operating system and the App Store in use to let you know about upgrades. For my Google Nexus 7, it updates the apps automatically and I get notifications when it has replaced the app. It a setting that has to be turned on in the Google Play app’s settings.
Apple shows you a badge on the App Store app indicating there are apps that need updated. I don’t know how Google handles updates if your settings are off. I suspect you still get a notification and swiping it will cause the install, but I can’t be 100%.
That said, I have seen a few apps that have push notifications enabled and send messages to let people know that there is a new update. That would be the only way within an App (Corona or Not) to manage that. Corona does support push notifications for Google Play apps. I’m not sure how well that works for Amazon and Nook apps.
It is the responsibility of the Operating system and the App Store in use to let you know about upgrades. For my Google Nexus 7, it updates the apps automatically and I get notifications when it has replaced the app. It a setting that has to be turned on in the Google Play app’s settings.
Apple shows you a badge on the App Store app indicating there are apps that need updated. I don’t know how Google handles updates if your settings are off. I suspect you still get a notification and swiping it will cause the install, but I can’t be 100%.
That said, I have seen a few apps that have push notifications enabled and send messages to let people know that there is a new update. That would be the only way within an App (Corona or Not) to manage that. Corona does support push notifications for Google Play apps. I’m not sure how well that works for Amazon and Nook apps.
I have a couple of apps on iTunes that don’t show this badge, so I probably set them up incorrectly. I really want my new game to do this.
Rob - Do you recall if you set anything up in iTunes connect for this?
EDIT: In fact, I don’t see how to set this up in Google Play, either.
There is nothing you do on your end to affect the App store, as long as your new version is a higher version number than the previous and the version you upload has a matching version number. All you do is add the new version fill out any new details, and market it ready for upload. Then build and upload from Corona.
Android wants to auto-update things if that’s turned on. Their notification that there are new updates isn’t very obvious to me. I don’t live my daily live in Android (I’m an iOS guy day to day), so I’m not that savvy with all things in the Android OS.
I don’t see these updates for another app I have up there. I increment the thousandths digit on new versions (2.001, 2.002, etc).
Maybe I need to update a more significant digit in the version.
On iOS 6 and earlier, when you have apps that have updates to them, you should get a badge on the App Store app (if you’ve not turned it off in Notification center). When you go into the App Store app and visit the Updates tab, you will see all the apps that need updated. You can hit Update All or update them one at a time. Starting with iOS6 there might be a “New” banner on your App’s icon.
With iOS 7 users have the ability to turn on automatic app updates (which some Android devices also offer) and your apps will update in the background and unless you go into the App Store, visit the update tabs and look you may not know that the appw as updated.
Using version numbers in the thousandths like that is kind weird, but Apple should see it as a new version since they don’t really do any math with it other than to make sure it’s greater. If they didn’t take it, you wouldn’t be able to event setup the new version in iTunes Connect.
I have a couple of apps on iTunes that don’t show this badge, so I probably set them up incorrectly. I really want my new game to do this.
Rob - Do you recall if you set anything up in iTunes connect for this?
EDIT: In fact, I don’t see how to set this up in Google Play, either.
There is nothing you do on your end to affect the App store, as long as your new version is a higher version number than the previous and the version you upload has a matching version number. All you do is add the new version fill out any new details, and market it ready for upload. Then build and upload from Corona.
Android wants to auto-update things if that’s turned on. Their notification that there are new updates isn’t very obvious to me. I don’t live my daily live in Android (I’m an iOS guy day to day), so I’m not that savvy with all things in the Android OS.
I don’t see these updates for another app I have up there. I increment the thousandths digit on new versions (2.001, 2.002, etc).
Maybe I need to update a more significant digit in the version.
On iOS 6 and earlier, when you have apps that have updates to them, you should get a badge on the App Store app (if you’ve not turned it off in Notification center). When you go into the App Store app and visit the Updates tab, you will see all the apps that need updated. You can hit Update All or update them one at a time. Starting with iOS6 there might be a “New” banner on your App’s icon.
With iOS 7 users have the ability to turn on automatic app updates (which some Android devices also offer) and your apps will update in the background and unless you go into the App Store, visit the update tabs and look you may not know that the appw as updated.
Using version numbers in the thousandths like that is kind weird, but Apple should see it as a new version since they don’t really do any math with it other than to make sure it’s greater. If they didn’t take it, you wouldn’t be able to event setup the new version in iTunes Connect.