I have a React Native app with firebase for backend,
And now I'm in the last part to release it,
But I have a question, after releasing my app I will add some updates or something and I want to ensure every user updates, so should I implement a modal that appears after adding some updates to my app and publishing it to stores
So I just thought if I made a boolean item if I add updates just change it to True and in my code if that true modal appeared else hidden it!
So that's a nice way to go with it?
Or can firebase help me in this case to tells any new things I do "I don't send to them push notifications if u want to tell me that"
If you want to tell your user about new update when they open the app, You can use Firebase Remote Config with needed keys like latestVersion, forceUpdate, releaseNotes, etc and show dialog in your app
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I've been working on an app which displays a list of websites when click on it will be redirected to webview in the app itself, I'm unable to find a way how to update the links dynamically without updating the app. So, If I want users to interact with new links the new links should automatically be updated in the app without update and in the webview too. Is it possible to do that?
You should use firebase remote config feature, which best fits in your case.
Firebase Remote Config is a cloud service that lets you change the
behavior and appearance of your app without requiring users to
download an app update.
Well to do that you first need to create a project in firebase console
In remote config feature you can add data in key-value pair. Like in this image:
I have added two key-value pair, as can add as much as you want. Now in the app side you have to add dependency:
implementation ‘com.google.firebase:firebase-config:11.8.0’
And to fetch the values which you have added in firebase, you can easily get those url but first you need to follow some steps to do that. You can check this simple tutorial.
Note: To get the values from firebase remote config you must need to click on publish changes button(Which you can see in above image top right corner).
You can store that link to a server and return that link when the app hits a certain API of that server. But for doing that, you need to setup a server, build a server application if you haven't already. Which is a lot of work for just storing a website link.
Another option could be, you can use services like http://bit . ly and create a custom link from that service, like http://bit . ly/my_specific_domain and use this link in your app. When you need to point to a different website, you can just update where http://bit . ly/my_specific_domain redirects to.
But you best bet would be to use Firebase Remote Config, which is both reliable and easy to implement, but that is already described in previous answer.
I want to make an android app that will display mess menu of hostel. The menu will be changing every week so how can I change content of TextView once it is installed in user's phone .I considered WebView but I want better alternative . I think I need some cloud based service here . What are some good resources to achieve this.
Just do a Simple REST API and then every time you start your app call your api to retrieve the information, for example
yourdomaing.com/api/menu/getmenus should retrieve a Json with every item on menu.
You have plenty languages for making a simple rest api
check this related link
Examples of REST APIS
You can store your data (Text/Media) on firebase,It is very easy to start and then enable firebase offline functionality so that it is not required to download data on each launch of application.
Update data on firebase and add valueEventListener in your activity to get that data.
An alternative could be Firebase (by Google).
It's a free and real-time service. It allows you to change the content while the app is running. See "real-time database" and "A/B testing" in Firebase.
Basically i'm working on android apps using hybrid cross platform frame work (angular- cordova) , I want to update the user screens without their knowledge or without updating app, like for example if we change and supply the screens in the back-end, apps screens should get updated.
Currently we have app update mechanism which we want to replace .
For reference example like Facebook screens get changed with out app update or user knowledge .
same way we want to do , any one please give some solution .
Or if their are better way please suggest me.
Many thanks to all.
I am not using but I heard about Silent Push Notification, google it about Silent push notification for your framework.
User don't have any knowledge about getting any notification and you can do your work like layout changing
Example
https://www.google.co.in/search?q=silent+push+notification+cordova
First you need to get UI from server.in server you need boolean variable like changes true or false if change true then you get UI from server and create a view dynamically.Like you get button from server,server side define button colour style and all property then get response from server in conditional statement like you check a response name is button then you create a button dynamically with setTag attribute.and you need to store response from database.You use any database like realm,sqlite and check every response all time like changed=true or false if true then you create dynamical UI and remove old database and add new server response to database
For example I expect this kind of situation: data in my application lost relevance and so it usless until update. And until update it have to show users some predefined message.
Is here any simple and free solution to this task?
Guess I can use some server to somehow send simple messages... but it sounds way too complicated.
If this is important I use Xamarin.
Update: main difficulty here is fact - my application can't in any way define if it's outdated or not. This may happen in random moment.
Although the requirement is not very clear I assume Update here means app update.
each time user launches app make call to an api on ur server to check if user needs to update app
If that returns true take user to a static view that says app needs update and redirects user to google play to install updates
If you want to avoid using a server, you should try Firebase (https://firebase.google.com/). More specifically, you should use Firebase Remote Config (https://firebase.google.com/features/remote-config/).
Define in a key-value pair of something like minimum_app_version_required in Firebase Remote Config. Every time user opens the your app, compare the values of app version and minimum_app_version_required that you are getting from Firebase console and show a dialog box accordingly. You can also change the value of minimum_app_version_required anytime you want.
Just set some internal flag. That when that situation occurs, you can set the flag to true and just edit whatever layout element you are using such as listView or any other element with your predefined messages saved in strings.xml. You can also build any custom pop up screen, depends how you want to show them. Let me know if you didn't understand or exactly how you want?
Need to implement versioning for this problem. To achieve this, you have to maintain a version number in server, this is the version number you app will have to save and use it to validate with server. If both are not same, then app will get the latest data from the server.
I'm making an app for Android that will not be in the Play Store and I was wondering if I could make it ask to update the app when I have an update ready. Also, would I be able to push the update out just by uploading to Mediafire, or would I need my own server? Thanks!
You will need to create a web service for it, which you can update after releasing new version. You can use this web serive in your app to check whethet the new version is out or not. Hope this helps.
As beserk answered .. i think i'll explain more in detail,though i'm not sure that this is the procedure that should be used ,but this is how i would do it .. make your app talk to a server once in 15 days or something so that it can check for a value in the server .. in your app get that value and is there is an update of the app according to your server ,just redirect to an another activity in the app so that user may not able to use your app again or keep a shared preference in the app like update=true and just check the shared pref value during the splash screen ,now redirect it another activity saying you need to update the app in order to use it ... i'm sure that there will be lot of other ways ,but this is the way i would do it