AndroidAppUpdater - Java (Kotlin, Android)

Android Library

A free, open source, third party Android library to notify the update information about the installed android apps on an android device. The library has been built with the Kotlin language. Check out the wiki link. To support,

Description

AndroidAppUpdater is a free, open source, third party Android library for notifing update information to android apps installed on an android device. By its help, an old application is notified about update information from the Google Play Market. Library has built with Kotlin language on Android Studio IDE and binaries have added to jcenter() maven repository.
You can check jCenter() download statistics on this link
There is a list of application using AndroidAppUpdater. It would be nice if see your app link there too. If you use this library and want to see your app in the start of the list please inform me or send a pull request.

Don't forget to start the protect to support us

Contributors

Developer - Main functionality: Sattar Hummatli - LinkedIn, [email protected], Other libs
Developer - Added new feature: andrewpros , Thanks!, New Feature: "Info Resolver". Now you can get information from your own formatted service
Translator Portuguese: azzarr , Thanks!
Translator Hindi: dalwadi2, Thanks!
Translator German: Ndam Njoya, Thanks!
Translator French: Zeldarck, Thanks!, Has changed sample apps to support French.
Translator Greek: Nikos Linakis, Thanks!.

Demo App

Download the demo app from this link - Demo App. You can easly test the lib's functionality.

Service structure

To provide update information to your app you need to implement service responding json data about application current state. Structure of the json data is as below.
You can provide http:// and https:// services. Library works both of them.

Json with sample data. Link to working sample

{
    "is_run_mode":"true",
    "name":"AndroidAppUpdater Sample",
    "uri_current":"com.mobapphome.mahandroidupdater.sample",
    "version_code_current":"2",
    "version_code_min":"1",
    "update_info":"On version 1.0 we added bla bla",
    "update_date":"16/07/2016"
}

is_run_mode - service mode: if it's false modul will not react to service and will not show dialogs
name - name of the belonging app
uri_current - current package path
version_code_current - current version code avilable
version_code_min - Minimum version code, which does not work normal and had to force to update
update_info - Update information
update_date - Update date

If one of the variables would not be on json, then modul will not repond to service and act, Try to implement all data.

You can check you json validity with this jsonlint.com

There is interface called IUpdateInfoResolver by the help of it you can fetch your update information form own structed service. For example JSON API, XML,Raw text and so on. For this reason there is special init() method accepting this variable. This feature has added by @andrewpros.

Library structure

You can call with the same way in Kotlin and Java. Library contains samples both in Kotlin and Java Library components:

AAUpdaterDlg- In this situation dialog show to user to update or install newer version and lets to postpone the action to later time and use application
AAUpdaterRestricterDlg - In this situation dialog urges user to update or install newer version and dont alow use older version

The porpose of lib to show automatically these dialogs on application start if there are any need for it. - AAUpdaterDlg opens on following situation.

Or uri_current value is different from app's installed package url
Or version_code_current value is greater than app's installed version on device

- AAUpdaterRestricterDlg opens on all situation AAUpdaterDlg opens and following situation.

version_code_min value is greater than app's installed version on device

But when you develop your apps UI and want to show these dialogs there are test modes also and you can open dialogs by calling methods relatively

AAUpdaterController.testUpdaterDlg(activity) - AAUpdaterDlg
AAUpdaterController.testRestricterDlg(activity) - AAUpdaterRestricterDlg

Installation manual

The lib has compiled with the gradle 4.6.

1) To import library to you project add following lines to project's build.gradle file.
The last stable version is 1.3.3

repositories {
    maven { url 'https://dl.bintray.com/hummatli/maven/' }
}

dependencies {
     //The android-app-updater libary
    implementation 'com.mobapphome.library:android-app-updater:1.3.3'
    
    //These dependencies have been used in this lib so you need to include them acording to gradle 3.0 and upper
    implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'
    implementation 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.10.2'
}

2) On the start of your application call AAUpdaterController.init() method to initialize modul. For example: MainActivity's onCreate() method or in splash activity. Check http url is correct and points to your service on the web. Code:

    AAUpdaterController.init(activity,"http://highsoft.az/android-app-updater-sample.php")

3) When you quit app, you have to call AAUpdaterController.end() method to finalize modul. For example: MainActivity's onDestroy() method.

    AAUpdaterController.end()

4) To customize AndroidAppUpdater dialog UI and overide colors set these values on your main projects color.xml file

    <color name="android_app_upd_window_background_color">#FFFFFFFF</color>
    <color name="android_app_upd_title_bar_color">#FF3F51B5</color>
    <color name="android_app_upd_info_txt_color">#FF3F51B5</color>

    <color name="android_app_upd_restricter_dlg_btn_pressed_color">#a33F51B5</color>
    <color name="android_app_upd_restricter_dlg_btn_dark_state_color">#ff3F51B5</color>
    <color name="android_app_upd_restricter_dlg_btn_light_state_color">#ffffffff</color>

    <color name="android_app_upd_upd_dlg_btn_text_color">#ffFF4081</color>

5) Localization: Following languages is supporting by the lib - Supported Languages. To set localization to app use your own method or if it is static and don't change in program session you can just simply add LocaleUpdater.updateLocale(this, "your_lang"); in the start of your app. For examlpe LocaleUpdater.updateLocale(this, "ru");

6) To customize AndroidAppUpdater UI texts and overide them add these lines to main projects string.xml and set them values.
To help translators there prefixes on the name of strings

< command verb (actions)> - These are commands verbs. Meaninaction on UI , dialogs
< noun > - these are nouns not action (verb)

    <!-- noun --> <string name="noun_android_app_upd_dlg_title">Update information</string>
    <!-- Button texts-->
    <string name="android_app_upd_dlg_btn_no_later_txt">Later</string>
    <!--command verb--> <string name="cmnd_verb_android_app_upd_dlg_btn_no_close_txt">Close</string>
    <!--command verb--> <string name="cmnd_verb_android_app_upd_dlg_btn_yes_update_txt">Update</string>
    <!--command verb--> <string name="cmnd_verb_android_app_upd_dlg_btn_yes_install_txt">Install</string>
    <string name="android_app_upd_dlg_btn_yes_open_new_txt">Open new version</string>
    <!--command verb--> <string name="cmnd_verb_android_app_upd_dlg_btn_no_uninstall_old_txt">Uninstall old</string>

    <!-- Info texts-->
    <string name="android_app_upd_updater_info_install">Application has moved to new address. Please install newer version</string>
    <string name="android_app_upd_updater_info_update">New version is available. Please update application</string>
    <string name="android_app_upd_restricter_info_install">This is old version and does not operate. An application has moved to new address. \nPlease install newer version</string>
    <string name="android_app_upd_restricter_info_update">This is old version and does not operate. Please update application</string>
    <string name="android_app_upd_restricter_info_open_new_version">This is old version and does not operate. Please open new version</string>

    <!-- Additional information-->
    <string name="android_app_upd_internet_update_error">Check your internet connection</string>
    <string name="android_app_upd_play_service_not_found">Install Google Play Services to update application</string>
    <string name="android_app_upd_info_popup_text">\"AndroidAppUpdater\" library</string>

7) To customize Info button on the right - upper corner of dialogs. You can do it with help of AAUpdaterController.init() method. It has three version. init()This method well documented and you can see it when developing your app.
You can do followings with Info button:

Change visibility
Set your own name or url to open when click on info button
Open popup menu or act as button when click on info button

8) As modul takes information from web servcie you need add INTERNET permission to main project.

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

Proguard configuration

AndroidAppUpdater uses Gson and Jsoup libs. There for if you want to create your project with proguard you need to add proguard configuration to your proguard file. Look at Progurda File.

Help - Issues

If you have any problem with setting and using library or want to ask question, please let me know. Create issue or write to [email protected]. I will help.

To contribute

I am open to hear offers and opinions from you

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request
Star it

Localization

Library now supports following languages

Azerbaijan
English
German
Greek
Hindi
Portuguese
Russia
Turkey
Add your language

To contribute for localization

To help translator in context I have added prefixes to the start of the string names. Be carefull when translating. Prefixes are following:
* < command verb (actions)> - These are commands verbs. Meaninaction on UI , dialogs
* < noun > - these are nouns not action (verb)

We need help to add new language localization support for libarary. If you have any hope to help us we were very happy and you can check following GitHub Issues URL to contribute. To contribute get <a href="https://github.com/hummatli/AndroidAppUpdater/blob/master/android-app-updater/src/main/res/values/strings.xml file and translate to newer language. Place it on res/values-"spacific_lang"/string.xml

Applications using AndroidAppUpdater

Please ping me or send a pull request if you would like to see your app in the start of the list.

Icon	Application	Application
[Your app]	ping me or send a pull request	Indian Railway PNRStatus IRCTC
	Миллионер - на Pусском	Milyoner - Türkçe
	Millionaire - in English	Məzənnə
	AppCrossPromoter - Sample	AndroidAppUpdater - Sample
	SimpleEncryptorLib - Sample	Ləzzət
	Milyonçu	Millionär - Deutsche

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License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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