EAS update not updating on my app

Expo Application Services (EAS)
1

Hello team!

I am implementing OTA in my managed expo app first time and struggling to get update from last one week.
I referred Updates - Expo Documentation, Get started - Expo Documentation and Use EAS Update - Expo Documentation docs.

APP.JSON: added

"updates": {
      "checkAutomatically": "ON_ERROR_RECOVERY",
      "fallbackToCacheTimeout": 0,
	  }

IN APP.JS ADDED

import { View, Button } from 'react-native';
import * as Updates from 'expo-updates';

export default function App() {

  async function onFetchUpdateAsync() {
    alert(`update:${Updates?.releaseChannel}`)
    alert(`updatemainifest:${Updates?.manifest?.releaseChannel}`)
    try {
      const update = await Updates.checkForUpdateAsync();

      if (update.isAvailable) {
        alert('update.isAvailable:true')
        await Updates.fetchUpdateAsync();
        await Updates.reloadAsync();
      }
    } catch (error) {
      // You can also add an alert() to see the error message in case of an error when fetching updates.
      alert(`Error fetching latest Expo update: ${error}`);
    }
  }

  const eventListener = (event) => {
    alert(`EVENT FIRES ${event}`)
    if (event.type === Updates.UpdateEventType.ERROR) {
      // Handle error
      alert('UPDATE ERROR');
    } else if (event.type === Updates.UpdateEventType.NO_UPDATE_AVAILABLE) {
      // Handle no update available
      alert('UPDATE NO_UPDATE_AVAILABLE');
    } else if (event.type === Updates.UpdateEventType.UPDATE_AVAILABLE) {
      // Handle update available
      alert('UPDATE UPDATE_AVAILABLE');
    }
  };

  Updates.useUpdateEvents(eventListener);

  return (
    <View>
      <Button title="Fetch update" onPress={onFetchUpdateAsync} />
    </View>
  );
}

AND EAS.JSON

{
  "cli": {
    "version": ">= 3.13.0"
  },
  "build": {
    "development": {
      "developmentClient": true,
      "distribution": "internal",
      "channel": "development"
    },
    "preview": {
      "channel": "preview",
      "distribution": "internal"
    },
    "production": {
      "channel": "production"
    }
  },
  "submit": {
    "production": {}
  }
}

after that I run the production build and that i deployed in the PLAYSTORE -INTERNAL TESTING but I am not getting latest updated.
I used
eas build --profile production --platform android
eas submit --platform android
eas update --branch production --message “Updating the app”
command.
Here is some screenshot of expo.dev Once i click update button i will getting error message FAIL TO DOWNLOAD MANIFEST FROM THE URL

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Please gait me is any steps i am missing?

2

hi there! sorry you’re having some issues here.

i’d suggest referring to the following guides:

if those don’t help, please share any other info that you’ve learned from there

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3

Thank you soo much, i checked the first link and the procedure solved the issue i was facing

4

Hey quixcel, am currently facing the same problem. What was your issue and how did you resolve it?

5

Same here! My app is detecting the updates but not applying the updates. From android logs I can see an error while parsing a date but I dont know if it could be it

6

Just solved the issue. In my case it was just adding

requestHeaders: {
        "expo-runtime-version": xxx,
        "expo-channel-name": xx
      },

under expo.updates on app.config.js

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7

I suppose that I’m facing the same error as my error message reads as follows.

code: ERR_UPDATES_CHECK 
message: "channel-name" is not allowed to be empty.

@komonpavs I think your workaround would work for me. Thanks.
However, isn’t it a bug then? I set build.production.channel to production in eas.json. Also, EAS update worked properly 1 month ago with the same code.

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I would say so, my problem was that the not the channel name nor the runtime version were being set on the manifests so I hope that solution works for you!

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