Updating app issue

[sconlon]

I want to be able to update my app from a website using FTP so I have a service within the app that checks for a new version of the APK file and downloads it. Each time the app is run it checks for the existence of a new APK file, i.e. a previously downloaded one, and if found does:

Dim myapp As String
Dim Intent1 As Intent
myapp = "file://" & apkPath & "/" & APKfullname
Intent1.Initialize(Intent1.ACTION_VIEW, myapp)
Intent1.SetType("application/vnd.android.package-archive")
StartActivity(Intent1)

What happened was that the Install dialog was displayed but then the app continued to run and it was only when I exited the app that the install resumed. So I put an Activity.Finish after the StartActivity(Intent1) and as this is done before much else in Main I thought the Activity.Finish would exit the app and allow the install to run. Not so, it seemed that the Activity.Finish made no difference. Puzzling to me!

Ta.

 

[JonPM]

Would ExitApplication work for you instead? This destroys the activity immediately.

 

[Erel]

Please use [ code ] [ /code ] tags (without spaces) when posting code.

Do you see the installation dialog?

This project might be helpful: http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...ons-multiple-devices-b4aserver.html#post53738

 

[sconlon]

Erel, apologies for using the incorrect protocol.

The ExitApplication worked fine and I guess since I had not yet started any of the other activities in the project it should be ok to use. But I still wonder why Activity.Finish did not work as expected.