Update your App when you release APK on GitHub (using Library)

supersu-man / apkupdater-library

Checks for the latest release in the GitHub repo and if latest apk release is found, it downloads the apk for you.

If you also release APK file with every new release as an asset on GitHub just like me, this could be a very useful Library to you.

Requirements

• Your App Version name in Gradle and your release Tag version on GitHub needs to be SAME (adding 'v' is optional in GitHub Tag version).

Gradle:

versionName "X.Y"

GitHub Tag version for release:

vX.Y or X.Y

• Add these lines in top level build.gradle

allprojects {
    repositories {
        /// ....
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    }
}

• Add this line in build.gradle

implementation 'com.github.supersu-man:GitHubAPKUpdater-Library:v1.6'

Usage

Usage in one of my Apps here

Simple implementation here

Example

thread {
    val updater = Updater(this, "Link_to_your_repo")
    checkForUpdates(updater)
}

private fun checkForUpdates(updater: Updater) {
    if (updater.isInternetConnection()){
        updater.init()
        updater.isNewUpdateAvailable {
            if (updater.hasPermissionsGranted()){
                updater.requestDownload()
            } else{
                updater.requestMyPermissions {
                    updater.requestDownload()
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Explanation

• Initializing (use your repo link like this)

val updater = Updater(this,"https://github.com/supersu-man/Macronium/releases/latest")

• Checking for required Permissions

updater.hasPermissionsGranted()

• Requesting required permissions (it's WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE here)

updater.requestMyPermissions {
    //Your code after user gives the permission 
}

• Checking for Internet Connection

updater.isInternetConnection()

• Checking for New Update (if the version name and latest tag version don't match it detects as new update)

updater.init()
updater.isNewUpdateAvailable {
    //Your code when new update is found in the repo
}

• Download latest APK

updater.requestDownload()