Update Checker

Android User, never miss an Update.

Overview

UpdateChecker is a class that can be used by Android Developers to increase the number of users update their apps by showing a "New Update Available" Notification or Dialog.

It's based on Fragments, It checks for new updates downloadable by parsing the Play Store desktop page of your app.

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Changelog

Current version: 1.2.4

See complete ChangeLog

Dependencies

• Styled Dialogs
• android-support-v4.jar

Example

• Check out the Demos folder

Usage

• Import Styled Dialogs into the library.

• Import android-support-v4.jar into the library.

• Import the library into you app.

• First, add INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE permissions to your app's Manifest:

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
  

• So, in the class you want to use the library extend a FragmentActivity (or, obviously, a SherlockFragmentActivity ).

• To show a Play-Store-App-like notification if a new update was found:

    UpdateChecker.checkForNotification(this);
  

  

• To show a dialog if a new update was found:

    UpdateChecker.checkForDialog(this);
  

  

##Important!

• If there is a new update available, when app launched, not every time the Notification / Dialog will be shown. The Notification/Dialog will be shown every 5 times the app ascertain that a new update is available. It's a precaution to make the library not too invasive. To modify this, see Customization.

• See Issue #1

##Customization

• You can modify modify the number of checks after the dialog will be shown. Default is 5.

    UpdateChecker.checkForNotification(this, 10);
    
    UpdateChecker.checkForDialog(this, 10);
  

• You can modify the notification Drawable by calling a variant of checkForNotification(...) method:

    UpdateChecker.checkForNotification(R.drawable.ic_launcher, this)
    
    UpdateChecker.checkForNotification(R.drawable.ic_launcher, this, 10)
  

• See How to style StyledDialogs, to customize the New update avaialble dialog:

##Contribution

Questions

If you have any questions regarding UpdateChecker, create an issue.

Feaure request

To create a new Feature request, open an issue here

I'll try to answer as soon as I find the time.

Pull requests welcome

Feel free to contribute to UpdateChecker.

Either you found a bug or have created a new and awesome feature, just create a pull request.

Please note, if you're working on a pull request, make sure to use the develop branch as your base.

Discuss

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Coming soon

• Support for apps published on Amazon App Store
• Auto Update (Auto download apk)
• Stackoverflow tag for more specific code problems
• Preference to disable UpdateChecker
• Changelog Functions
• Rate this app Functions
• Remove FragmentActivity requirment
• Demo app published on Play Store.

Credits

Author: Pietro Rampini - PiKo Technologies

## License

• Apache Version 2.0