In-App Updating Option (Closes #121) #133
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Needs fine tuning
LoVega1337
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- Added constraint to button - Added version number showing top left in home screen - Added translation strings in updater instead of hardcoded strings - Added invisible text to indicate new version is available (for later use)
Finalized everything, could use simplifcation and tidying up in the future
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Can you move this entire thing to a separate class like updateService ?
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And also use coroutines to handle this network part.
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Sure, I can do that.
I thought about planning it like this: Merging and publishing a new release with this current version of the updater so the users have a general update service, so they don't need to manually sideload the new version every time.
After this I'll open a new PR to refine the code and put them into another class and also convert the ThreadWorker to Coroutines. This then can be updated into another release when there are other significant changes to the app.
Do we wanna do it like this?
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I think it is better to put all of this in 1 PR.
Because this async task work and manual work seems like 2010 :D Also AsyncTask is deprecated...
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And second... As the app is pretty much dead (no live content yet) I'd say no rush on this one.
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Okay so I have played around with Coroutines a bit and everything I try fails, so I need to do some research on this, since I only worked on small projects and with Async tasks so far. So this might take a while.
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Hope that this will be implemented soon! |
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I see the work with the async task still has to be done... Do you want me to take over this PR? I will probably have some time this weekend. |
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@leonardoxh Yeah sure. |
Closes #121
Added Button to download latest version from this Repo and automatically install it. So basically updating it.
It does get the latest update from "https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv/releases/latest/download/app-release.apk".
It fetches the latest version from "https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv/blob/master/app/build.gradle.kts" (direct link here "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv/master/app/build.gradle.kts").
So basically every time a new release comes out and build.gradle gets updated for the release, it shows a version mismatch and will show there's an update.
To do: