Make Users to Update Your Application with HMS
AppGalleryKit App and AppGalleryKit Game services allows to jointly operate the apps with Huawei and share revenue generated in the process. Developer will have access to Huawei’s diverse services including HUAWEI AppGallery connection, data reports, activity operations, and user operations to obtain more premium HUAWEI AppGallery resources in order to promotion purposes.
To enable AppGalleryKit App or AppGalleryKitGame operations, you need to sign the HUAWEI AppGallery Connect Distribution Service Agreement For Paid Apps with Huawei. For details about the joint operations process, please refer to Joint Operations Services at a Glance.
AppGalleryKit App and AppGalleryKit Game is a product concept derived from Account, Analytics, In-App Purchases and other kits. With AppGalleryKit App or AppGalleryKit Game, initializing the app, updating the app, implementing Account Kit is optional. But it is necessary to implementing In-App Purchases kit to use AppGalleryKit App or AppGalleryKit Game. Also it is advised that use Analytics Kit, Auth Service, Crash Service, A/B Testing and APM.
AppGalleryKitApp or AppGalleryKitGame is not pure kit integration. It is required for developers to sign AppGalleryKitApp or AppGalleryKitGame related agreements and they are derived from many features.
Initiliazing app, updating the app, Account Kit and In-App Purchases can be implemented seperately. These kits do not depend on AppGalleryKitApp or AppGalleryKitGame. But AppGalleryKitApp or AppGalleryKitGame depends on these kits.
Although we are not going to use AppGalleryKitApp or AppGalleryKit game, we can still use the update status of the application. In this article, we will check if there is an update in a demo app. Of course due to this app will not be in AppGallery market, there will not any update required.
In order to use this feature, first HMS Core is needed to be integrated to the project.
You can click this link to integrate HMS Core to your project.
Adding Dependency
After HMS Core is integrated, app-service library needs to be implemented.
We will create a checkUpdate method and use it in onCreate. JosApps.getAppUpdateClient method, AppUpdateClient instance will be obtained. This object provides the methods related to app update. checkAppUpdate method, checks for app updates after the app is launched and initialized.
We need to create a static class which is UpdateCallBack and it will implement CheckUpdateCallBack. CheckUpdateCallBack returns a result for checking for app updates. It requires onUpdateInfo, onMarketInstallInfo, onMarketStoreError and onUpdateStoreError methods are implemented.
in onUpdateInfo method, we can get status code, fail code, fail reason and other informations.
For more information you can click this link.
In this example, due to we do not have the application released in the market, we got a status code which is equal to 3. This indicates that for the application there is no upgrade needed.
For all status codes, you can check the below image.
For more details, you can check AppGalleryKit App and AppGalleryKit Game development guide links in reference section. Also you can download this demo application from the Github link.
