Upgrader package to handle both for Google Play & Huawei AppGallery for App Upgrade

[yllew2]

I have been using this upgrader to handle my app upgrade for Android and IOS. It is working great.
However, recently, I have uploaded my App to Huawei App Gallery too.
This package seem to have issue to differentiate the Android source to redirect Google PlayStore or Huawei AppGallery for upgrade. My I know if there is a solution for this situation? How the rest manage the app upgrade situation for different android source from Google Play and Huawei AppGallery at the same time.

[larryaasen]

If this was possible it would be using the Appcast file. However, I don't think this is possible. Do you know if there is a way to identify what app store the app was installed from?

[yllew2]

Thanks for the quick response. I don't think there is a way to identify what App Store from the user device/phone. At the moment, I am using the same flutter build APK and able to load the same APK into both Google Playstore and Huawei AppGallery for user to download. So, in term of code, there is no different. However, when I have new App release upgrade using your upgrader package, it will always route it back to Google play as expected and break the upgrade for those download from Huawei AppGallery. The only way I can think of, is to have a separate build package apk release (with different remote config) for Google Playstore and Huawei AppGallery but this way is very troublesome to maintain.
I wonder if you or others expert here have other way on the best practice to manage app upgrade for android version on both Google Playstore and Huawei AppGallery.

[larryaasen]

Somehow, the app needs to identify which app store it was installed from. If the Android SDK cannot provide that, then the AndroidManifest.xml can identify the app store by using a specific package name for each store. In the code, it should load a corresponding Appcast file based on the app store.

[yllew2]

Do you have any example on how the Appcast file work? I would like to understand better.
In the future, I really hope your upgrader package can also handle this scenario for both Google Play and Huawei AppGallery.
Your upgrader package is really a great package.

[larryaasen]

Here is an example Appcast file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:sparkle="http://www.andymatuschak.org/xml-namespaces/sparkle">
    <channel>
        <title>Debt Now App - Appcast</title>
        <item>
            <title>Version 1.15.0</title>
            <description>desc</description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
            <enclosure url="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moonwink.treasury" sparkle:version="1.15.0" sparkle:os="android" />
        </item>
    </channel>
</rss>

[larryaasen]

Closing this due to inactivity.

[GeylanKalafMohe]

Please include huawei app updates!

[MrShakila]

You can find the updated Huawei App Gallery support in #451 Pull Request