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Scorpio
Scorpio

Reputation: 81

Rolling out update of SDK OTA

I have developed a SDK for android applications.We have many clients using this SDK in there applications.Now i have updated my SDK.I am looking for a way that these changes can reflect in there application without updating there app on play store.Urgent help needed.Any help will be appreciated.Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 230

Answers (2)

Harry Sharma
Harry Sharma

Reputation: 2200

Well you can dynamically load a jar file from your SD card using DexLoader class...which you can update when ever you want..on your storage... below is working code..

  final String libPath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() +     "/test.jar";
    final File tmpDir = getDir("dex", 0);

    final DexClassLoader classloader = new DexClassLoader(libPath, tmpDir.getAbsolutePath(), null, this.getClass().getClassLoader());
    final Class<Object> classToLoad = (Class<Object>) classloader.loadClass("com.test.android.MainActivity");

    final Object myInstance  = classToLoad.newInstance();
    final Method doSomething = classToLoad.getMethod("doSomething");



    doSomething.invoke(myInstance);

and in your library file code can be like this

public class MainActivity {



public void doSomething() {

Log.e(MainActivity .class.getName(), "MainActivity : doSomething() called.");
}}

tell me if you need any assistance

Upvotes: 4

Vladyslav Matviienko
Vladyslav Matviienko

Reputation: 10881

there is no such way for your situation. But there is one thing you can do to enable it for next update. Android can dynamically load compiled code with DexClassLoader. So you compile a new DEX file, and then force your SDK to download and use it.

// Internal storage where the DexClassLoader writes the optimized dex file to
  final File optimizedDexOutputPath = getDir("outdex", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
  DexClassLoader cl = new DexClassLoader(dexInternalStoragePath.getAbsolutePath(),
                                         optimizedDexOutputPath.getAbsolutePath(),
                                         null,
                                         getClassLoader());
  Class libProviderClazz = null;
  try {
      // Load the library.
      libProviderClazz =
          cl.loadClass("com.example.dex.lib.LibraryProvider");
      // Cast the return object to the library interface so that the
      // caller can directly invoke methods in the interface.
      // Alternatively, the caller can invoke methods through reflection,
      // which is more verbose. 
      LibraryInterface lib = (LibraryInterface) libProviderClazz.newInstance();
      lib.showAwesomeToast(this, "hello");
  } catch (Exception e) { ... }

Upvotes: 1

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