Android-WVersionManager

Objective

Things changed/added by this fork:

• Convert WVersionManager library to an Android Studio project and remove depency on deprecated org.apache.http library (replacing all calls with URLConnection or HttpURLConnection)
• Add option to download update using Android's Download Manager. Remember that your app must have "android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" permission for this to work: versionManager.useDownloadManager(true);
• Add option to automatically open downloaded APK file, as long as app has proper permissions in Oreo (android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES) or Unknown sources is enabled in case of lower versions. Otherwise Downloads app will be launched): versionManager.installAfterDownload(true);
• Add option to force update check (by ignoring remind timer): versionManager.checkVersion(true);
• Instead of setting strings (like button labels) by code, let them be overridden by adding them to app's strings.xml file (list of all string ids from this library can be seen here)
• Implemented concept of a "blocking update" - after adding is_blocking field set to true in your JSON file, default update dialog will only show Update button (it also won't be cancelable). You also will be able to check this value by calling versionManager.isBlockingUpdate(); after update check or using onReceive(int status, boolean isBlocking, String result) method from com.winsontan520.wversionmanager.OnReceiveListener. This will be also saved to SharedPreferences, so it will survive app restart.

Compiled .jar file can be downloaded from releases tab or added in build.gradle from jcenter repo:

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.winsontan520.wversionmanager:wversionmanager:1.7'
}

You can read original readme with all details about the setup here: https://github.com/winsontan520/Android-WVersionManager/blob/master/README.md

License - Free to use

Copyright 2013 Winson Tan

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