I am working on a Windows Phone News Client and recently we changed some of the APIs. For that some of the older versions of my app is crashing heavily as there are format mismatches.
My question: Is there any way available to restrict users of previous version (suppose version 1.0.0.0) using that particular version? Or, force them to download the latest version of app (suppose version 1.0.0.1) from store? Does Windows Phone Store have any built in feature for this purpose?
Please guide me. Thanks.
As far as I can see, there is no such feature in Windows Phone Store to accomplish your requirement. When update available user will be notified, but the update won't get installed automatically without user action.
You should implement logic to restrict user in the application it self. For example, upon application start up, check current version against latest version in server, then close the application if it isn't up-to-date.
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Today we have an app in applestore with a version labeled as 7.6.2 and internal build number as 1.0.0. We are using mobilefirst 7.1 to develop. Problem is that now we have a new app, that is 7.6.2.1, but we would like to know if is possible continue to use 7.6.2 app from applestore onto 7.6.2.1 mobilefirst app (asking it because we would like to keep our customers using just a single app from applestore). We also have an app on google play and would like to apply same idea.
Maybe this is an edge case, so do we have a way to control this directupdate by ourselves?
Customization of direct update is limited to the UI and options when you receive a direct update push.
As for version management, if both versions 7.6.2 and 7.6.2.1 are deployed in the MFP server, end users can have these versions deployed on their devices. Direct update or other configurations can be separately configured for these different versions.
However, if an end user is on v 7.6.2 and they take an update from AppStore or Playstore, and the version on the device becomes v7.6.2.1, this updated application on the device will start connecting to only v7.6.2.1 in the server. And only direct updates this version on the device ( 7.6.2.1) will receive are the ones uploaded to 7.6.2.1 in the server.
Direct update feature is meant only to push small web resources changes into your application. If the MFP Application Version numbers for both app versions(i.e 7.6.2 and 7.6.2.1) are different, you can continue to use both the versions and push direct update indvidually based on version number.
I'm developing a windows phone application. I have a version of my app in windows store. I know how to find the version of package I'm developing, but i want to find programmatically the version of my app in windows store,so i can compare and if the version store is bigger than the version of app user has, i want to make a notification and tell him that a newer version is available.
Thanks in advance!
Beginning with WP8 you can query the Store using windows.applicationmodel.store.listinginformation but sadly this does not include the version.
There is no public Windows Store API that provides this info. So you'd have to either scrape the info yourself or connect to a 3rd party API that provides alreasy scraped data. Solutions outlined here: windows store api to access metro and phone apps information
Wait but why?
If you only need to provide your app the latest version code, just store it in a JSON file hosted on your backend, or alternatively, if you're feeling fancy, create a dedicated webapp that checks for updates.
I am testing WSO2-Emm system for managing our android mobile app. We have an app for taxi drivers. We deploy it using our tablets and a single gmail account. Our problem is that google allows up to 10 signed in devices for a single google account.
I have tried to load the apk to the WSO2 store. The problem is that when I want to upload a new version of the same app I get a warning message saying that this APK already exists in the store. When I try to rename it and add it as a new apk it works. The problem is that when I go to App-Management, the application appears under 'installed'. The Emm system doesn't detect there is a new version.
To be more specific, my question is is there a way to manage mobile application versions using the WSO2 store and not the google play store.
If there is a way we can go on with this system. If not, we will stop testing it.
The only way I've figured out how update an already installed app is by going to the App Management tab, selecting your latest version of the app in question, and hitting the install button under the Roles tab (NOT the Users tab). It will send the install command to any devices listed under roles you have checked, even if they already have the app installed. Keep in mind this will install the app on all the devices, even devices that already have the version you're trying to put out.
It looks like you already know about the patch on EMM-686 that must be implemented in order to upload multiple versions of the same app to the Publisher. Just in case you want to confirm it's implemented correctly, see my answer here for instructions on how to implement it.
How does IBM MobileFirst detect what is the type of application update (Direct Update , Version Update)
I want to keep my JSONstore data while minor update (direct update - Upgrade app from v1.01 to v1.02. )
I want to destroy my JSONstore data while major update (version update - Upgrade app from v1.01 to v2.00.)
Any suggestion to perform this function ?
Any API to get current version of App ?
The framework checks for Direct Update by comparing a checksum value of the web resources that reside in the application and the web resources that reside in the server. If they differ, then there will be a Direct Update.
There is no check between major version numbers (1.0 and 2.0), as that update is done via the update mechanism provided by the various app stores.
What you could do store either in your JSONStore or using HTML5 LocalStorage the current version of your application, and when you release a new version then to add logic in your app to compare the existing version with the new version and act upon based on the result.
Within my app, how can I make it check if there is an update available in the Mac App Store, and tell the user about this?
As an example, Sparrow does this.
Charcoal Design has an open source component that does that: iVersion.
But it requires you to add a file in your server for your application to read.
Whenever you update the version, just change the information in your server, and iVersion will show the user that a new version is available.
You could also scrape Apple's servers to read the version of your app, but there is chance that your app may be rejected for doing that.
Basically, Sparrow does not need to ask the App Store. It can just compare its bundle string to the newest version on their website.