Android programmatically update application when a new version is available

Question

Within my application, I want to check if there is any updated version of my application is in the app store. If there is any, then have to inform the user through an alert

Answer 1

Well there is another way I figured out and this is how I am doing it.

HttpPost httppostUserName = new HttpPost("https://androidquery.appspot.com/api/market?app=com.supercell.clashofclans"); //your package name
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

HttpResponse responseUser = httpclient.execute(httppostUserName);
String responseStringUser = EntityUtils.toString(responseUser.getEntity(), HTTP.UTF_8);

Log.d(Constants.TAG, "Response: " + responseStringUser);
try {
    JSONObject Json = new JSONObject(responseStringUser);
    newVersion = Json.getString("version");
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

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