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Mobile application which does version updates actomatically

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HI ALL,
Am new to mobile application developmetn.
we already having a running application. Now i want to make that application in such a way that whenver it is started it should connect to server and check if there is a new version of this application and updates its version to the server version.
Its similar to bootstrappeer.
I dont have any idea of how to do and where to start.
All help will be more helpfull for me.

Thanks in advance.
Jan 28 '09 #1
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RedSon
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Do you have a server that you are hosting for this application? It can be as simple as your application connecting to the internet to check a text file on your server that has the latest version information on it.

However, any network activity that your application does may cost the user money so you may want to think of a different way to update the information for it.
Feb 9 '09 #2
meshiva
3 New Member
THANKS for your reply..
yes we haeva server. and user need not connect everytime to the server. he can work offline and he can upload the data when he needs. at the time of upload we need to check for update of version because if the version is not updated the data might get loss.
do you have any idea on how to proceed wit this?
Feb 10 '09 #3
RedSon
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sure, just have a service running on your server and when the user connects to the server have the application call that method to get the latest version number. If it is greater than what the current version installed is then you can tell the user to upgrade.
Feb 10 '09 #4
meshiva
3 New Member
Yes even we were thinking like the way you told.
but we dont want user to upgrade. it should automatically upgrade when a new version is found. and one more problem we foresee is (when we try to install the new version of application windows will ask a question "if you want to upgrade as a older version is available in your p.d.a" we want to suppress this message as when the upgrade happen automatically it will not be good to ask questions to user.)
Feb 10 '09 #5
RedSon
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I think it is a very poor decision to upgrade in the background without giving the user the option to cancel or deny the upgrade.
Feb 10 '09 #6

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