Hybrid update

When pushing updates to your user you have a few ways to deal with the update cycle as you see fit before applying them.

• Silent update
• Listen for updateAvailable event
• Show a modal window or delay updates

Silent update

You can force an update cycle to happen at every app start by setting directUpdate to true, this will trigger the update cycle as usual without the user interaction.

// capacitor.config.json
{
  "appId": "**.***.**",
  "appName": "Name",
  "plugins": {
    "CapacitorUpdater": {
      "directUpdate": true,
    },
    "SplashScreen": {
      "launchAutoHide": false,
    }
  }
}

And then in your app, you should hide the splash screen when you receive the event appReady:

import { CapacitorUpdater } from '@capgo/capacitor-updater'
import { SplashScreen } from '@capacitor/splash-screen'

CapacitorUpdater.addListener('appReady', () => {
  // Hide splash
  SplashScreen.hide()
})

CapacitorUpdater.notifyAppReady()

Force update

Add a listener to the event updateAvailable and then show an alert to let the user know the app will update:

import { CapacitorUpdater } from '@capgo/capacitor-updater'
import { Dialog } from '@capacitor/dialog'

CapacitorUpdater.addListener('updateAvailable', async (res) => {
  try {
    await Dialog.alert({
      title: 'Update Available',
      message: `Version ${res.bundle.version} is available. The app will update now`,
    })
    CapacitorUpdater.set(res.bundle)
  }
  catch (error) {
    console.log(error)
  }
})

CapacitorUpdater.notifyAppReady()

Modal update

You can also let the user decide by showing a dialog to ask them to update:

import { CapacitorUpdater } from '@capgo/capacitor-updater'
import { Dialog } from '@capacitor/dialog'

CapacitorUpdater.addListener('updateAvailable', async (res) => {
  try {
    const { value } = await Dialog.confirm({
      title: 'Update Available',
      message: `Version ${res.bundle.version} is available. Would you like to update now?`,
    })

    if (value)
      CapacitorUpdater.set(res.bundle)

  }
  catch (error) {
    console.log(error)
  }
})

CapacitorUpdater.notifyAppReady()