How to allow users to check for the latest app version from inside the app?
I want to add a "Check for update" button in apps so that when someone clicks it, it will display a toast message / progress dialog for checking the app's version.
If new version is found the apps will auto download it to the phone and let user to manually install the updated apps.
Or any others method will do as long as it can check for latest version and notify the user to update.
Google updated play store two months before. This is the solution working right now for me..
class GetVersionCode extends AsyncTask<Void, String, String> {
@Override
protected String doInBackground(Void... voids) {
String newVersion = null;
try {
Document document = Jsoup.connect("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + MainActivity.this.getPackageName() + "&hl=en")
.timeout(30000)
.userAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WindowsNT 5.1; en-US; rv1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6")
.referrer("http://www.google.com")
.get();
if (document != null) {
Elements element = document.getElementsContainingOwnText("Current Version");
for (Element ele : element) {
if (ele.siblingElements() != null) {
Elements sibElemets = ele.siblingElements();
for (Element sibElemet : sibElemets) {
newVersion = sibElemet.text();
}
}
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return newVersion;
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String onlineVersion) {
super.onPostExecute(onlineVersion);
if (onlineVersion != null && !onlineVersion.isEmpty()) {
if (Float.valueOf(currentVersion) < Float.valueOf(onlineVersion)) {
//show anything
}
}
Log.d("update", "Current version " + currentVersion + "playstore version " + onlineVersion);
}
}
and don't forget to add JSoup library
dependencies {
compile 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.8.3'}
and on Oncreate()
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
String currentVersion;
try {
currentVersion = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(getPackageName(), 0).versionName;
} catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
new GetVersionCode().execute();
}
that's it.. Thanks to this link
为了节省编写检查Android应用程序新版本更新的时间，我将它写为库并在https://github.com/winsontan520/Android-WVersionManager中开放源码
You can use this Android Library: https://github.com/danielemaddaluno/Android-Update-Checker. It aims to provide a reusable instrument to check asynchronously if exists any newer released update of your app on the Store. It is based on the use of Jsoup (http://jsoup.org/) to test if a new update really exists parsing the app page on the Google Play Store:
private boolean web_update(){
try {
String curVersion = applicationContext.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(package_name, 0).versionName;
String newVersion = curVersion;
newVersion = Jsoup.connect("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + package_name + "&hl=en")
.timeout(30000)
.userAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WindowsNT 5.1; en-US; rv1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6")
.referrer("http://www.google.com")
.get()
.select("div[itemprop=softwareVersion]")
.first()
.ownText();
return (value(curVersion) < value(newVersion)) ? true : false;
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return false;
}
}
And as "value" function the following (works if values are beetween 0-99):
private long value(String string) {
string = string.trim();
if( string.contains( "." )){
final int index = string.lastIndexOf( "." );
return value( string.substring( 0, index ))* 100 + value( string.substring( index + 1 ));
}
else {
return Long.valueOf( string );
}
}
If you want only to verify a mismatch beetween versions, you can change:
value(curVersion) < value(newVersion) with value(curVersion) != value(newVersion)