Request: Play Core Library

[kuramochia]

I wants to use ”In-app Updates” feature in Xamarin.Android.

Do you plan to support "Play Core Library" in Xamarin?
https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle/in-app-updates

[Redth]

This is a lot more complex unfortunately than just us providing bindings to the library.

First of all, we have appbundle support landing in an upcoming preview of Visual Studio / Xamarin.Android. This is the thing we need to deliver apps which could eventually be capable of being used for in-app updates.

However, we currently do not support separating your xamarin.android application into separate modules. This is something the Xamarin.Android team is aware of, and will be looking at in the future. Once we have support for this we will look at including the binding for this library.

Hope that makes things a bit clearer!

[dev-abcdevelopers]

Hi @Redth any update on this?

[Redth]

Sorry, no, but I'll add @jonathanpeppers and @jonpryor to this thread as well for future reference. They may be able to comment on any future plans with supporting modules in Xamarin.Android.

[aldy-deptech]

i am very looking for this :'(

[dev-abcdevelopers]

Any new info on this? It'll be great if we have this features in Xamarin.Android app too.

[caiofbpa]

Given that we are already using App Bundle, is this going forward anytime soon? It's really important to keep users up-to-date with minimal annoyance.

[tomcurran]

@Redth @jonathanpeppers @jonpryor Play Core Library has functionality in it for in-app updates which don't necessarily rely on modularity like an immediate full-screen update. A binding would be useful to use these even full module support is not included.

[BradKwon]

Any updates on this library support? In order to use App Bundle and language specific modules, I need this library to trigger downloads and listening to them for their progresses.

[Skirtek]

@Redth @jonathanpeppers @jonpryor Any plans to include this feature or library support in near future? It will be really useful for us - Xamarin developers :)

[sreenivaskavali]

Any update?

[michelbahia]

Apparently they did not resolve this issue.

[donatellijl]

Would love to have this feature of splitting Xamarin.Android app into feature modules.

[rohitvipin]

Any reason this is closed? Is there another issue that tracks this?

[Line-]

I found this https://github.com/PatGet/XamarinPlayCoreUpdater might be of some use as a starting point. I assume from what @Redth said that what those bindings I linked offer (immediate updates) are the extent of what is possible right now until we have support for separate modules in order to support updating a running app, is that correct?

[dev-abcdevelopers]

@Line- I tested this just now and it seems to working fine for me.

[HavenDV]

We also recently implemented In-App Updates for Android as an easy to use MAUI package, maybe this will help someone.
We use this in production and are open to bug fixes/new features.
https://github.com/oscoreio/Maui.Android.InAppUpdates