Update Listener for App Store/Play Store Builds

[profesor]

1. SDK Version: 44
2. Platforms(Android/iOS/web/all): Android/iOS

Hi,
I’d like to implement an update listener which blocks user interaction and force user to update to continue using the app. This is possible with the expo-updates package, but only for the OTA updates. According the docs, OTA updates has some limitations, and don’t cover all aspects.

Please note - if you wish to update the SDK version of your app, or make any of the these changes, you’ll need to rebuild your app with eas build (or expo build if you are using the classic build service) and upload the binary file to the appropriate app store (see the docs here).

In any future, I may deploy a new build to the store (for example when Expo SDK 45 is released), and force users to update their apps in the store. How can I check if there is a new version available in the Play Store/App Store, and force users to update their app (not with expo-updates Updates.fetchUpdateAsync() or Updates.reloadAsync())?

[royanzain2802]

How will my users know if I have an updated bundle and how to distribute it to them?

Well, If you talking about changing the “Install” to “Update” button in google play u have to change versionCode in your app.json and increment its value each time you build apk / aab. if you talking about how to force user to go to playstore and update when user open your app heres what im doing. Make an API that will return latest version of your app. for example /app/version/ returns { version : “1.0.0” In your app. when app first loaded. call that api and get the version. and compare it t…

hope this helps