MAHAndroidUpdater - MobAppHome android update helper library
MAHAndroidUpdater is library for notifing update information to installed android apps on android device. By it's help old application gets notified about update information from Google Play Market
Library has build on IDE Android Studio
and binaries have added to jcenter()
maven
repository.
You can check jCenter() download statistics on this link - https://bintray.com/hummatli/maven/mah-android-updater#statistics
#PlayStore
MAHAndroidUpdater - Sample app has published on Google PlayStore. You can easly test module functionality with downloading it.
#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.
Json with sample data
{
"is_run_mode":"true",
"name":"MAHUpdater 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 dialogsname
- name of the belonging appuri_current
- current package pathversion_code_current
- current version code avilableversion_code_min
- Minimum version code, which does not work normal and had to force to updateupdate_info
- Update informationupdate_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.
#Library structure Library contains from to Dialog component
MAHUpdaterDlg
- In this situation dialog show to user to update or install newer version and lets to postpone the action to later time and use applicationMAHRestricterDlg
- 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.
- MAHUpdaterDlg
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
- MAHRestricterDlg
opens on all situation MAHUpdaterDlg
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
MAHUpdaterController.testUpdaterDlg(activity);
-MAHUpdaterDlg
MAHUpdaterController.testRestricterDlg(activity);
-MAHRestricterDlg
#Installation manual
1)
To import library to you project add following lines to project's build.gradle
file. The last stable version is 1.0.12
dependencies {
compile 'com.mobapphome.library:mah-android-updater:1.0.14'
}
2)
On the start of your application call MAHUpdaterController.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:
MAHUpdaterController.init(activity,"http://highsoft.az/mah-android-updater-sample.php");
3)
When you quit app, you have to call MAHUpdaterController.end()
method to finalize modul. For example: MainActivity's onDestroy()
method.
MAHUpdaterController.end();
4)
To customize MAHAndroidUpdater
dialog UI and overide colors set these values on your main projects color.xml
file
<color name="mah_android_upd_window_background_color">#FFFFFFFF</color>
<color name="mah_android_upd_title_bar_color">#FF3F51B5</color>
<color name="mah_android_upd_info_txt_color">#FF3F51B5</color>
<color name="mah_android_upd_restricter_dlg_btn_pressed_color">#a33F51B5</color>
<color name="mah_android_upd_restricter_dlg_btn_dark_state_color">#ff3F51B5</color>
<color name="mah_android_upd_restricter_dlg_btn_light_state_color">#ffffffff</color>
<color name="mah_android_upd_upd_dlg_btn_text_color">#ffFF4081</color>
5)
Localization:
Module now supports 4 languages (English, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkey)
. 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 MAHAndroidUpdater
UI texts and overide them add these lines to main projects string.xml
and set them values
<string name="mah_android_upd_dlg_title">Update info</string>
<!-- Button texts-->
<string name="mah_android_upd_dlg_btn_no_later_txt">Later</string>
<string name="mah_android_upd_dlg_btn_no_close_txt">Close</string>
<string name="mah_android_upd_dlg_btn_yes_update_txt">Update</string>
<string name="mah_android_upd_dlg_btn_yes_install_txt">Install</string>
<string name="mah_android_upd_dlg_btn_yes_open_new_txt">Open new version</string>
<string name="mah_android_upd_dlg_btn_no_uninstall_old_txt">Uninstall old</string>
<!-- Info texts-->
<string name="mah_android_upd_updater_info_install">Application has moved to new address. Please install newer version</string>
<string name="mah_android_upd_updater_info_update">"New version is available. Please update application"</string>
<string name="mah_android_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="mah_android_upd_restricter_info_update">"This is old version and does not operate. Please update application"</string>
<string name="mah_android_upd_restricter_info_open_new_version">"This is old version and does not operate. Please open new version"</string>
<!-- Additional information-->
<string name="mah_android_upd_internet_update_error">Check your internet connection</string>
<string name="mah_android_upd_info_popup_text">MAHAndroidUpdater library</string>
7)
As modul takes information from web servcie you need add INTERNET
permission to main project.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
#Proguard configuration MAHAndroidUpdater uses Gson and Jsoup libs. There for if you want to create your project with proguard you need to add following configuration to your proguard file.
##---------------Begin: proguard configuration for Gson ----------
# Gson uses generic type information stored in a class file when working with fields. Proguard
# removes such information by default, so configure it to keep all of it.
-keepattributes Signature
# For using GSON @Expose annotation
-keepattributes *Annotation*
# Gson specific classes
-keep class sun.misc.Unsafe { *; }
#-keep class com.google.gson.stream.** { *; }
# Application classes that will be serialized/deserialized over Gson
-keep class com.google.gson.examples.android.model.** { *; }
##---------------End: proguard configuration for Gson ----------
##---------------Begin: proguard configuration for Jsoup--------------------------------
-keep public class org.jsoup.** {
public *;
}
##---------------End: proguard configuration for Jsoup--------------------------------
#End Thats all. If you have any probelm with setting and using library please let me know. Write to settarxan@gmail.com. I will help.
#Contribution I am open to here 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
#Contribution for localization 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 res/values/string.xml file and translate to newer language. Place it on res/values-"spacific_lang"/string.xml
If you have any question please ask to me on settarxan@gmail.com
#Developed By Sattar Hummatli - settarxan@gmail.com
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