Automatic app updates (my custom app)

[tom_garvin]

I am now working on a project where we will have several hundred users. We will be cycling through frequent updates during the initial deployment phases.

When does a locally installed app (phone or tablet) detect whether there is an updated version to download?

I am hoping the answer is "every time it starts", but I have not been able to prove this to be true.

[sarafankit · Accepted solution]

It is ""every time it starts" with one small caveat that in certain cases if the app was started within a minute of new version being published, it may still run the previous version as it is not aware of the latest version.