react-native-version-check

A version checker for react-native applications. This library gets the latest app version by parsing google play store, apple app store's app information or custom url. Parsing code is referenced from here

Looking for maintainers!

I have almost zero experience in ios development, and I am no longer working on mobile app development(doing backend and devops works mainly and some web frontend). It makes me hard to maintain this library actively. Hope to have someone to help maintaining react-native-version-check!

expo

react-native-version-check supports expo! with react-native-version-check-expo

usage

// import
import VersionCheck from 'react-native-version-check-expo'

VersionCheck.getCountry().then(country => console.log(country))

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-version-check

yarn

$ yarn add react-native-version-check

Example

$ git clone https://github.com/kimxogus/react-native-version-check.git
$ cd react-native-version-check/example
$ yarn # or npm install
$ react-native run-android # or react-native run-ios

Automatic Installation

$ react-native link react-native-version-check

Manual Installation

- iOS - Link Manually

Add .xcodeproj file as library to XCode project.
1. In project navigator, right click Libraries
2. Select Add Files to [PROJECT_NAME]
3. Add the node_modules/react-native-version-check/ios/RNVersionCheck.xcodeproj file
Add the libRNVersionCheck.a from the RNVersionCheck project to your project's Build Phases > Link Binary With Libraries

iOS - CocoaPods Package Manager

Add to your Podfile (assuming it's in ios/Podfile):

pod 'react-native-version-check', :path => '../node_modules/react-native-version-check'

Reinstall pod with cd ios && pod install && cd ..

- Android

Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

...
include ':react-native-version-check'
project(':react-native-version-check').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-version-check/android')

Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

...
dependencies {
   ...
   compile project(':react-native-version-check')
}

Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java

......
import io.xogus.reactnative.versioncheck.RNVersionCheckPackage;  // <--- HERE

......

@Override
protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
   ......
   new RNVersionCheckPackage()            // <------ HERE
   ......
}

Usage

import { Linking } from 'react-native';
import VersionCheck from 'react-native-version-check';

VersionCheck.getCountry()
  .then(country => console.log(country));          // KR
console.log(VersionCheck.getPackageName());        // com.reactnative.app
console.log(VersionCheck.getCurrentBuildNumber()); // 10
console.log(VersionCheck.getCurrentVersion());     // 0.1.1

VersionCheck.getLatestVersion()
  .then(latestVersion => {
    console.log(latestVersion);    // 0.1.2
  });

VersionCheck.getLatestVersion({
    provider: 'appStore'  // for iOS
  })
  .then(latestVersion => {
    console.log(latestVersion);    // 0.1.2
  });

VersionCheck.getLatestVersion({
    provider: 'playStore'  // for Android
  })
  .then(latestVersion => {
    console.log(latestVersion);    // 0.1.2
  });

VersionCheck.getLatestVersion()    // Automatically choose profer provider using `Platform.select` by device platform.
  .then(latestVersion => {
    console.log(latestVersion);    // 0.1.2
  });

VersionCheck.getLatestVersion({
  forceUpdate: true,
  provider: () => fetch('http://your.own/api')
    .then(r => r.json())
    .then(({version}) => version),   // You can get latest version from your own api.
}).then(latestVersion =>{
  console.log(latestVersion);
});

VersionCheck.needUpdate()
  .then(async res => {
    console.log(res.isNeeded);    // true
    if (res.isNeeded) {
      Linking.openURL(await VersionCheck.getStoreUrl());  // open store if update is needed.
    }
  });

VersionCheck.needUpdate({
  depth: 2
}).then(res => {
  console.log(res.isNeeded);
  // false; because first two fields of current and the latest versions are the same as "0.1".
});

VersionCheck.needUpdate({
  currentVersion: "1.0",
  latestVersion: "2.0"
}).then(res => {
  console.log(res.isNeeded);  // true
});

VersionCheck.needUpdate({
  currentVersion: "2.1",
  latestVersion: "2.0",
}).then(res => {
  console.log(res.isNeeded);  // false
});

Methods

#getCountry() (Promise<country: String>) - Returns device's country code of 2 characters.
#getPackageName() (packageName: String) - Returns package name of app.
#getCurrentBuildNumber() (buildNumber: Number) - Returns current app build number.
#getStoreUrl([option: Object]) (Promise<storeUrl: String>) - Returns url of Play Market or App Store of app.
#getAppStoreUrl([option: Object]) (Promise<storeUrl: String>) - Returns url of App Store of app.
- Option
  
  Field Type Default
  
  appID string App ID
  
  ignoreErrors boolean true
#getPlayStoreUrl([option: Object]) (Promise<storeUrl: String>) - Returns url of Play Store of app.
- Option
  
  Field Type Default
  
  packageName string Package Name
  
  ignoreErrors boolean true
#getCurrentVersion() (currentVersion: String) - Returns current app version.

Field	Type	Default
appID	string	App ID
ignoreErrors	boolean	true

Field	Type	Default
packageName	string	Package Name
ignoreErrors	boolean	true

#getLatestVersion([option: Object]) (Promise<latestVersion: String>) - Returns the latest app version parsed from url. Returns null when parsing error occurs.

Option

Field	Type	Default
forceUpdate	boolean	`false`
provider	string or function	provider name or function that returns promise or value of the latest version
fetchOptions	object	isomorphic-fetch options (https://github.github.io/fetch/)
ignoreErrors	boolean	true

#needUpdate([option: Object]) (Promise<result: Object>) - Returns an object contains with boolean value whether update needed, current version and latest version. Current and the latest app versions are first split by delimiter, and check each split numbers into depth.