We are currently using the Cordova live update plugin to implement a custom live update flow.
An important fact about our use case is that we often have several thousand users active at the same time at a conference or event and need the ability (as much as can be realized) to distinguish between critical and non-critical updates, i.e. whether or not an update should be applied immediately or can be applied in the background (on next app open).
While ideally this is something that we would wish to see built-in to Appflow (potentially via the ability to tag builds), we right now solve this need by maintaining a separate flow in our CMS for marking build IDs as critical.
With the Cordova plugin, we can use the ‘checkForUpdate’ method to get the build id for the latest update without downloading it, but no equivalent method is available in the Capacitor plugin. This means that we now have to download the update before we can inform the user that a mandatory update is available, a delay that will degrade the user experience (we either allow the user to interact with the app before disrupting their flow in the case of an critical update or always delay interaction until the update has been downloaded).
Are there plans to add a ‘checkForUpdate’ method to the Capacitor plugin or is it potentially something that is available as a API endpoint?
Thansk for your help