How to Force Update Ionic Apps

How can you make sure you users are using the latest version of your Ionic app? In this Quick Win we implement a simple logic to block the app and show an alert with a update notice and link to the app stores!

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00:00 Intro
01:16 App Setup & Packages
04:11 Maintenance mode implementation
11:56 Major & Minor Version comparison
17:13 Open native App Stores
19:47 Final App Demo
21:30 Outro

[TheSaceone]

Holy Tuesday thanks for blessing us with another great video from Simon

[rvuyyuru]

Thank you so much for your dedication towards ionic community

[Chalbano]

The coolest in your videos, to me, is that I learn in both cases, one of them is things about Ionic and etc, and other is the English. I`m learning English right now, and I heard your videos to better it. Thank you!

[khambatgurbanov]

Hi Simon! Thanks for this useful tutorial
Can you make a video about ionic live update?

[davidedinapoli]

Hi @Simon, have you done anything to solve CORS policy errors?

[connorwilliams]

Hey Simon, thanks so much for you videos. Is this still the same process for capacitor 3?

[abctintin]

Hi @Simon,
It's very helpful. Following this approach, do we need to deploy a new app version to Google Play or App Store?

[azhagappankathiresan]

Can you please post an example with capawesome app update plugin?

[beautyhopapp]

can i use a firestore document, instead a json in ocean digital to maintain and update my versions?

[imnz]

do I need to add ios / android platform for cordova as well since I've already have both of that platform for capacitor?

[MrSwadhin]

Hi Simon, Is it possible to update the app from background, when not in use by user. Need to get some understanding on this

[minvalencia]

Hi simon how can I use downloadable angular template in my ionic project? what are the important things I need to do?

[velociraptor]

Hi Simon, in the last part of you video you mentioned pause and resume of the platform. Are you able to explain this more or do a video on this? I'm looking at doing this, where I go to an external link, and the app stays the same, until I come back to it, but so far, there isn't much on this - that I've seen. Having said that, I'll have probably figured it out by the time you address this issue, but you could add it to your todo list. :)

[TheSaceone]

You take the concepts of the dynamic components video, the dynamic forms video and this video and you can basically build a dummy app driven by json files hahaha. Awesome stuff here.

[KasimSheyi]

This is such beautiful content. Well explained!

[UttamRajGiri]

@simon Grimm how can we do this in ionic framework 3 using only cordova any idea?

[manuelmariscal]

Hello Simon! I am waiting for so long for an answer from you, can you tell me please, if it works on your projects with Ionic 4 + Angular the Local notifications (Ionic native) thank you ;) Regards!

[ravitejaboddu]

Is there a plugin with which we can get app version in ionic react application using capacitor.

[ibnunaufal]

Hi simon, is it possible to update the json automatically when we have a new version that uploaded on playstore/app store? it will be a tiring jobs when we manage dozens of apps, and we update it one by one

[azarudeen]

i want to redirect another app for payment but in mobile app detect the installed app, but working fine in web browser. What i am missed?