Apps [Q] How to provide updates to an app?

[ondrovic]

I am working on an app for work and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction of how to make an update service. I don't want to publish it to the market and to me it seems like there should be a way to make an update service that looks at a private ftp address to and then allows the update to be applied?

Thanks in advance

Chris Ondrovic

 

[miXer]

I really don't see why there should be a update service besides Android Market. If you have made an app that shouldn't be for the public, you have obviously put in some information only working for your company.

What you can do is have the app itself check regularly to a ftp site or whatever if there is a newer version out, and download it and install it as usual outside of Android Market(this will require option "Unknown sources" in the settings to be activated)

 

[ondrovic]

Thanks for the info. I did find a solution that I wanted to share with everyone it's really easy to implement and thus far seems to be working great.

https://www.push-link.com/