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I have an app that plays some videos. Links go down all the time. What I want to do is be able update it with out customers having to download a new version of my app every time. At the moment my update feature just consists of a button. Which when pressed takes you to media fire to download a new version. It's time consuming and constantly fills your hdd with new versions. Any help would be brilliant guys thanks.

jradich1234
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P9p studios
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  • "i have an app that plays some videos. Links go down all the time. What I want to do is be able update it with out customers having to download a new version of my app every time. " update what? – Ben Aug 14 '15 at 12:07
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    Why dont you serve the links from a server database? and then when you change them, use push notifications to update the devices? or just make the app download the links from the server once a day (if there was a change of course) – Johan Aug 14 '15 at 12:08
  • I have push notifactions but only know how to send text is there away to use push notifactions to actually update – P9p studios Aug 14 '15 at 16:11

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The best way is to create a REST service, you can make with any language. Then your app will be always up-to-date without any update.

Almis
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  • Something like this you mean?http://blog.strikeiron.com/bid/73189/Integrate-a-REST-API-into-Android-Application-in-less-than-15-minutes – P9p studios Aug 14 '15 at 14:15
  • You will have a server which return json and then do this http://stackoverflow.com/a/9606629/3546760 – Almis Aug 14 '15 at 16:25
  • No. The only thing that it does its to have an online database instead of local. – Almis Aug 16 '15 at 10:49
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Auto-update is already supported by Google Play and it is done on background. I see no reason to reinvent the wheel.

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  • Maybe he doesn't want to publish the app on the play store? – Johan Aug 14 '15 at 12:08
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    I think he means to update the content without updating the app. In that case he needs to use a REST API and that's it. – shalafi Aug 14 '15 at 12:10
  • *I think he means to update the content without updating the app* and that's why your answer tells something different? – Selvin Aug 14 '15 at 13:07
  • It's not published on playstore. I want to be able to do it all my self. I can write a data base but the php bit baffles me at mo. But wat is a rest api – P9p studios Aug 14 '15 at 13:46