Is there any free alternative to Code-Push

Ionic Framework
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Is there any free alternative to Code-Push.

I discovered Expo but I don’t know if it’s possible to use it with Ionic

AppCenter discontinued Cordova, my apps are on Ionic 3

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Advice on handling mobile app updates
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Hi
Have you considered AppFlow by Ionic? Not sure if there is a free tier.
Regards
Tom

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We can’t pay for AppFlow

Code-Push was free

There is certainly a plugin for that, as AppFlow uses

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Fair point,

The code of the plugin is opensource. You could consider making your own way? Some sort of server having the new code and then the plugin pulling the zip with the assets.

But also keen to hear alternatives see - I am not an expert in this

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If anyone has this information it would be very helpful.

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The package that Ionic has made to do Live Updates on AppFlow is GitHub - ionic-team/cordova-plugin-ionic: Ionic Cordova SDK.

Source from Ionic CLI

UPDATE
Looks like AppFlow functionality within the Ionic CLI is deprecated in favor of the Ionic Cloud CLI so cannot confirm that is still using the cordova-plugin-ionic for Live Updates - reference.

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@paulorogerio
Check out this repo: Solved! · Issue #3 · IllusionVK/ReplaceAppCenter · GitHub

People are reporting that they were able to host her own server and use regular code push plugin…

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No. Nothing is free.

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Success in my test.

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Great job, I will test it as soon as possible.

This post will help thousands of people

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Happy to help! @paulorogerio please share your experience and tips once you will test it…

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I can’t say it’s free, but several freemium codepush alternatives may work for you. One of them that we are going to use is AppsOnAir.

Though there are many others like Bytepush, Revopush, and all, but they only focus on real-time app sharing.

On the other hand, AppsOnAir provides both over-the-air app distribution so you can share your apk and ipa files without needing approval from app stores. Also, AppsOnAir also offers you a CodePush alternative so you can push real-time app updates.

So, for us, AppsOnAir is more suitable for our ecosystem.

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We can’t pay for AppFlow
me to …

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Appflow is being discontinued anyways.

Capawesome has a Live Updates plugin - Capacitor Live Update Plugin - Capawesome

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