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== Problem According to our user research, many people may not be aware of the store and how it works. Once our marketing efforts have encouraged users to install the app, they may not know how to update the app from the store == Solutions Allow the app to auto-update without relying on the user to choose to update every time we make changes ==== Store auto-update The KaiStore has a setting to control whether apps should auto-update. We should test if it **works as expected** and find out what is the **default value**. {F31805003} The JioStore doesn't have that setting. We should ask Jio if apps **can auto-update** in their store. (WARNING) We have to make sure local storage persists across app updates. ==== Hosted app Hosted apps look the same to users in the sense that they are available in the store and installed on the phone but there are a number of differences. See [[ https://developer.kaiostech.com/getting-started/build-your-first-hosted-app/packaged-or-hosted | documentation ]]. The main issue with hosted apps is downloading the app on every launch. It can be worked around with caching. We should figure out # the kind of code we need for **proper caching and proper cache invalidation** # where can the app be **hosted in the WMF infrastructure** == Results (WIP) ==== KaiStore auto-update I published version 1.0.0 of the app to the KaiStore and installed it on my banana phone. I then published version 1.0.1. I could see it in the store with the `update` label that means that a new version is available. My settings are set to auto-update. After a little over 24h I got the new version installed but I could see it right away because the old version was still running. I had to reboot to force close the old version and then I could see I was using the new version. To work around this inconvenient, we could consider closing the app explicitly instead of sending it to the background. This would also spare the device resources a little. See this [[ https://github.com/kaiostech/sample-react/issues/13 | issue ]] for how to do it. ==== JioStore auto-update I've reached out asking if there's an auto-update (or any other mechanism) on their store.

== Problem According to our user research, many people may not be aware of the store and how it works. Once our marketing efforts have encouraged users to install the app, they may not know how to update the app from the store == Solutions Allow the app to auto-update without relying on the user to choose to update every time we make changes ==== Store auto-update The KaiStore has a setting to control whether apps should auto-update. We should test if it **works as expected** and find out what is the **default value**. {F31805003} The JioStore doesn't have that setting. We should ask Jio if apps **can auto-update** in their store. (WARNING) We have to make sure local storage persists across app updates. ==== Hosted app Hosted apps look the same to users in the sense that they are available in the store and installed on the phone but there are a number of differences. See [[ https://developer.kaiostech.com/getting-started/build-your-first-hosted-app/packaged-or-hosted | documentation ]]. The main issue with hosted apps is downloading the app on every launch. It can be worked around with caching. We should figure out # the kind of code we need for **proper caching and proper cache invalidation** # where can the app be **hosted in the WMF infrastructure** == Results (WIP) ==== KaiStore auto-update I published version 1.0.0 of the app to the KaiStore and installed it on my banana phone. I then published version 1.0.1. I could see it in the store with the `update` label that means that a new version is available. My settings are set to auto-update. After a little over 24h I got the new version installed but I could not see it right away because the old version was still running. I had to reboot to force close the old version and then I could see I was using the new version. To work around this inconvenient, we could consider closing the app explicitly instead of sending it to the background. This would also spare the device resources a little. See this [[ https://github.com/kaiostech/sample-react/issues/13 | issue ]] for how to do it. ==== JioStore auto-update I've reached out asking if there's an auto-update (or any other mechanism) on their store.