Flexible Update Support

[ysmoradi]

At the moment, we're using awesome Maui.AppStoreInfo in our project template
I tried to use Maui.Android.InAppUpdates, but I received exception related to exportable activities, but before trying to fix that issue, I'd like to know about porting to Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.App.Update's schedule.
Congrats on your awesome works! I really appreciate them (":

[HavenDV]

Thanks for your feedback.
We tried using Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.App.Update already, but we had some problems with flexible updates, which is why we switched back to the Core package. I think we should give this another chance, the transition itself is quite trivial.

[HavenDV]

Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.App.Update v2.1.0.5 gives this error when trying to build the final application. The library is built without errors

0>InstallStateUpdatedListener.java(4,8): Error JAVAC0000 javac:  error: InstallStateUpdatedListener is not abstract and does not override abstract method onStateUpdate(InstallState) in StateUpdatedListener
public class InstallStateUpdatedListener

0>InstallStateUpdatedListener.java(30,14): Error JAVAC0000 javac:  error: name clash: onStateUpdate(Object) in InstallStateUpdatedListener and onStateUpdate(InstallState) in StateUpdatedListener have the same erasure, yet neither overrides the other
	public void onStateUpdate (java.lang.Object p0)

Information:

• Issue implementing IInstallStateUpdatedListener for flexible update PatGet/XamarinPlayCoreUpdater#17
• InstallStateUpdatedListener.onStateUpdate method mapping PatGet/XamarinPlayCoreUpdater#20

[HavenDV]

So for now the planned solution to this issue is to just wait for the new version of Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.App.Update to be released and try again
But perhaps there are other possibilities to implement or bypass this and we will be grateful for any information

[HavenDV]

Since support for Android 14 is important to us and the current version has bugs with this(xamarin/GooglePlayServicesComponents#813), we still made the transition and released version 1.1.0. But flexible updates are still not supported

[ysmoradi]

It seems it's not compatible with popular Plugin.StoreReview nuget package, even the recently published beta version )":
As far as I was able to understand, this is mainly an issue of Plugin.StoreReview, not Maui.Android.InAppUpdates, but I think if you submit an issue to that repo, you can describe the situation much much better than me.

Error	XA4215	The Java type `com.google.android.play.core.install.InstallStateUpdatedListener` is generated by more than one managed type. Please change the [Register] attribute so that the same Java type is not emitted.	Boilerplate.Client.Maui	C:\Program Files\dotnet\packs\Microsoft.Android.Sdk.Windows\34.0.52\tools\Xamarin.Android.Common.targets	1513	

[HavenDV]

I think the main problem is that the packages using Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.Core are not compatible with the Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.App.Update packages and other modular packages. But I could be wrong here

[ysmoradi]

I think the main problem is that the packages using Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.Core are not compatible with the Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.App.Update packages and other modular packages. But I could be wrong here

Would you recommend posting issue there?

[HavenDV]

I see recent commits in this repository and maybe it makes sense. Otherwise we may release a similar package for net8 and higher

[HavenDV]

Or I can provide a PR with support for migrating to modular packages for that repository and we'll just use that. But this may have compatibility issues with previous versions

[ysmoradi]

I'm fine with either approaches
If you decided to send a PR, consider opening issue there first, so we can continue discussion there.
Hope this helps me use your package in our project template finally 😅

[HavenDV]

https://github.com/oscoreio/Maui.InAppReviews
I've already released an initial version of this package, but I haven't tested it enough yet. But any feedback if you have time to test this would help me

[ysmoradi]

Greeting!
It's working.
The only remaining issue is support for flexible updates.

[HavenDV]

Version	Downloads	Last updated	
[2.1.0.6](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.App.Update.Ktx/2.1.0.6)	40	2 days ago

I hope this update that came out two days ago will solve the problem

[ysmoradi]

Any updates on this? 😭

[HavenDV]

This new version of the package still gives the same error, so unfortunately no
The only way I see is to take the source code of this package and fix it, but I'm not quite sure where this source code is, whether it's open source, I didn't find it in their repository