Channel system

Capgo and capacitor-updater comes with a powerful channel system.

What you can do with channels:

• Associate devices to channel for development, beta test, or AB testing
• Use one channel by dev branch and let your team self-assign from the phone to test

Assigning devices to a channel:

• Make the channel default, each time a new device asks Capgo for an update this channel will answer
• Send the deviceId (with getDeviceId method) to your backend and assign it with Capgo public API
• Make the channel self-assignable (with setChannel method), and let the device subscribe to the channel (with user interaction or not) with method setChannel of the plugin.
• Use the option defaultChannel in the config to set the default channel for all devices with this plugin configuration.

Note

You can also assign a device directly to a bundle.

Channel options

Details of each option:

Option	Description
Disable auto downgrade under native	Don’t send an update if the app’s native version is bigger than the channel one
Disable auto upgrade above major	Don’t send an update if the app native version is lower then a Major (1.2.3) from the channel one
Disable auto upgrade above minor	Don’t send an update if the app native version is lower then a minor (1.2.3) from the channel one
Allow the device to self-assign	Let a device use the setChannel method to this channel
IOS	Allow IOS devices to download updates from this channel
Android	Allow Android devices to download updates from this channel
Allow Emulator	Allow emulators to receive updates from this channel
Allow development build	Allow development build to receive update from this channel

Note

Capgo is doing some automatic filtering for you. If you have a CI/CD configured to send your version to Google Play, Google Play will run your app each time to 20+ real devices. During the first 4 hours of a new bundle, we will block Google data center IPs to prevent them from being counted in your stats.

Note

Capgo does not count emulator and dev builds in your usage, but keep in mind that you can’t have more than 3% of them, or your account will be locked until you fix it.