Android : restart application after update - ACTION_PACKAGE_REPLACED

Question

My application that is not on Play Store verify on the web If there are a new version and download and start it. After the installation I would like to restart the applicati

Answer 1

see this:

How to know my Android application has been upgraded in order to reset an alarm?

correct fix is that you use the wrong string in the manifest: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_PACKAGE_REPLACED

it should be "android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REPLACED" instead.

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ok , i see that what i've written is still not enough to try it out, so i will make an exception and publish a whole project just to show that it works: app code is in a package called "com.broadcast_receiver_test" . don't forget to run it before testing , or else it won't work on some android versions (i think API 11+) .

manifest:

MyBroadcastReceiver.java:

public class MyBroadcastReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver
  {
  @Override
  public void onReceive(final Context context,final Intent intent)
    {
    final String msg="intent:"+intent+" action:"+intent.getAction();
    Log.d("DEBUG",msg);
    Toast.makeText(context,msg,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
  }

please just run it and see that it works perfectly .

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EDIT: if your app is for API12 and above, and only wish to handle the case of updating of your app, you can use this intent alone:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED