OTA not working in eas

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  1. SDK Version: 44
  2. Platforms(Android/iOS/web/all): all
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So I recently updated my sdk to 44 and used eas to build my app and deployed it on the AppStore and Playstore. But to my suprise OTA updates stopped working. If I use expo publish I don’t get any updates. If I open the project on my Device over Expo Go I get the updates. Am I doing something wrong?

Best regards

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Hey @enesinho, can you share your updates configuration? Also, to clarify, do the updates not trigger on both Android and iOS?

Cheers,
Adam

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Hey @adamjnav this is my updates configuration. It works in other projects which where not build with eas:

    "updates": {
      "fallbackToCacheTimeout": 20000,
      "enabled": true,
      "checkAutomatically": "ON_LOAD"
    },

I was only able to test this on my iOS device. So I can’t tell right now, if it worked for Android. But I can follow up on that.

Best regards,

Enes

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With EAS we need to define release channel in eas.json

eg sth like this (might be wrong brackets, just made a snippet)

 "build": {
 "preview": {
      "android": {
        "buildType": "apk",
        "env": {
          "APP_ENV": "preview"
        }
      },
      "releaseChannel": "preview-v.0.0.1"
    }
}

And then you need to publish to that release channel
expo publish --release-channel preview-v.0.0.1

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Hey @rcknti, so my eas.json looks like this:

{
  "cli": {
    "version": ">= 0.44.1"
  },
  "build": {
    "development": {
      "developmentClient": true,
      "distribution": "internal"
    },
    "preview": {
      "distribution": "internal"
    },
    "production": {
		"releaseChannel": "production"
	}
  },
  "submit": {
    "production": {}
  }
}

and I published my code with this command:

expo publish --release-channel production

and I still see no changes on my iOS app.

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