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daniel garcia

Hi, does anybody know about pushing updates for custom apps in Android+? Right now, we have some custom apps that when you open them and there is an update, it is downloaded from a website and it installs but unknown sources has to be enabled and we want to get rid of that. We want to be able to manage them through soti and manage the updates from there as well. I'm looking into the documentation and it says there's 2 ways to install apps "Catalog Rules" and "Packages", but I don't see how to manage updates. Which options are available? Is there a way to schedule the updates installation as well? I mean, let's suppose we have an update for an app but it has to be released on a specific time for all devices.

Thanks.

5 years ago
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Matt Dermody Diamond Contributor
5 years ago

Yes absolutely, SOTI excels in that regard. You can package your APK into a SOTI Package and then provided that you sign the updates to the APK using the same signing mechanism and you properly increment the Android versioning then you can update the SOTI package with the new version of the APK and then SOTI can install it as an update over top of the existing version of the application. 

Process:

Compile and Sign APK A version 1.0

Encapsulate APK A version 1.0 into SOTI Package 1.0

Deploy SOTI Package 1.0 to the devices (Can schedule this and user filter criteria per the Profile Assignment options)

Compile and Sign APK A version 2.0 with the same signing process

Encapsulate APK A version 2.0 into SOTI Package 2.0 (updating the previous SOTI package)

Deploy SOTI Package 2.0 to the devices, which will upgrade it over the top of the previous version (Can schedule this and user filter criteria per the Profile Assignment options)

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JVMOD@SOTI
5 years ago

Hello Daniel,


Following up on this thread, were you able to resolve the issue? if @Matt post has helped you in solving your inquiry, I would request you to mark the particular comment as "is solution", so others may benefit from this information.


Regards,

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