Resolved How can I make my game aware of Updates?

Hi all,
I want my android app to realize there is a new version in the store and open the update page of playstore.
How can I do it?

 

You could host a version file somewhere that your program checks, then pops up a notice.

This is probably not worth doing, since most people have auto-update on and the app will generally just get updated.

 

hmm, but I feel getting risk in that way...

 

Risk of WHAT?!

 

is it a multiplayer game?

these answers seem to suggest on parsing the google play page.. at least wouldnt need your own server then.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions...or-the-latest-app-version-from-inside-the-app

 

not being updated

 

If it is multiplayer, you reject clients of the wrong version on the server side. On the client you give them some helpful message, like wrong version please update. If single player, you could try Remote Config.

If the game is single player, how is this any risk? You create a bigger risk of pissing off your players.

Games with frequent required updates on mobile will anger your players. You're a passenger in a car, you just want to kill a little time playing a game on your phone during the 20 minute drive, you open it up and it demands an update. Ok, your plans are ruined, by the time the update is done you'll probably be halfway to your destination. That happens a few times, and you stop opening the game entirely. Too much hassle, not worth keeping the game.

 

what is Remote Config?

 

https://unity.com/remote-config

 

ok thk, but really not sure if rc can replace and update.

 

No, Remote Config won't itself do the update. You can just set in Remote Config what the current version is. When the user launches your app, it can check if its version is the same as the version in Remote Config. If they are not equal, your app can tell the user that an update is available, and provide a button which goes directly to your app in the app store. All the Remote Config part is for, is to provide the value of the current app version, saving you from providing it with your own server.

But as I just mentioned, you could also rent your own server, and host a site on it which reports the current version of the app. When your app launches, you do a UnityWebRequest to your server to get the current app version. From there on how you handle it is the same. But renting and maintaining your own server to provide a single variable is a bit wasteful when Remote Config is available.

 

yeey, good one

 

Yes, Remote Config is a good solution here, I support that product too.

 

Uppsss in here, why didn't anyone tell about this official solution from google play?
https://developers.google.com/unity/packages#play_in-app_update

 

btw I tried it and I couldn't make it work. First you can not test it in editor mode second it crashed in android.
Is there any one who could make it work?

 

Why and where did it crash, how are you debugging? Remote Config certainly works in the Editor. Be sure not to confuse Remote Settings (now deprecated) with Remote Config (our new service). https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.remote-config@2.1/manual/CodeIntegration.html