React Native In App Updates

Overview

The rn-in-app-updates npm package is designed to provide a simple and effective solution for performing in-app updates in React Native applications. The methods provided by this package remains consistent across both Android and iOS platforms. In iOS user'll get a bottom drawer sheet opening app store page of the app to update the app manually and in android user'll be shown an immediate popup to update the app.

New Architecture Support

• use rn-in-app-updates npm package for old & new architecture support

Features

Cross-Platform Support: Works seamlessly on both Android and iOS platforms. Simple Integration: Easily integrate the package by importing and calling checkForUpdate and updateApp async methods.

Installation

Install the package using npm:

npm install rn-in-app-updates

Usage

Import the module in your React Native application and use it like this:

Example App.jsx(javascript)

import React, { useEffect } from 'react';
import { View, Text } from 'react-native';
import { checkForUpdate, updateApp } from 'rn-in-app-updates';

const App = () => {
  // To check for app updates on startup
  useEffect(() => {
    const requireAppUpdate = async () => {
      try {
        const { isUpdateAvailable } = await checkForUpdate();
        if (isUpdateAvailable) {
          await updateApp();
        }
      } catch (error) {
        console.log('Update check failed:', error);
      }
    };

    requireAppUpdate();
  }, [loaded]);

  return (
    <View>
      <Text>Some Value.</Text>
      <Text>I use arch btw.</Text>
    </View>
  );
};

export default App;

Contribution

Contributions to the project are welcome! Feel free to create issues or pull requests on the GitHub repository.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.