AppUpdateManager | In-app update

I am trying to implement in app updates in my app, but there is a disconnect between the documentation/tutorials that I have looked at and the actual final implementation.

I followed various code tutorials from:

https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-updates/kotlin-java#start-update https://www.section.io/engineering-education/android-application-in-app-update-using-android-studio/ https://medium.com/android-news/implement-in-app-update-in-android-68892bd11e35 https://www.raywenderlich.com/8034025-in-app-updates-getting-started

The code itself is fairly straightforward.

But what I found missing from all of these tutorials was how to actually call the in-app updates. These tutorials all seem to make a dedicated in-app update activity. How do I launch this in-app update activity from my main activity? Or alternatively, how do I incorporate the in app update code into my already existing main activity?

I assume I want some sort of async launch of an in app update listener or something along those lines, but I can't seem to wrap my head around the last step of integrating all the in-app update code/in-app update activity into my app.

Edit: here's a sample of what I've tried

Following is the code inside my SplashActivity.kt. Whenever there is an update available, mostly it doesn't show at all, but I think that is not because of any mistake in my code but as I learned it takes some time to show the user about the new update. My concern now is that when it shows the in-app update screen, it goes off and the app continues to the next screen and it doesn't ask the user to update the app to continue using the app. Have I made a mistake?

I have a problem with inapp update. A new version window appears, when you press the "Update now" button, unfortunately nothing happens, the application downloads in the background, but nothing happens app is not updated. I would like to add that I am testing it on the "Open Test" in play store path.

I tried below code from this url but the update popup never opens. I did internal testing app. I get toast message only till Toast(On CheckUpdate method,...).

I am basically trying to show in-app updates(Immediate) popup for users to allow update to the app but popup never shows up. Did i am writing incorrectly or i am missing something! Your help will be highly appreciated.

Whats wrong in below code?

I'm trying to implement the in-app updates on a new App I just created on Android Studio for testing. The app is just a "hello world" but I implemented the in-app updates checker as it says in these two pages:

https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-updates#kotlin

https://johncodeos.com/how-to-implement-in-app-updates-in-android-using-kotlin/

We're using Google play for work (or the actual name for a "private acces" play store) where we upload our business App's, and these Apps are only for employees to use in stores. But even so, this Apps have a link, same as normal ones (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=country.company.appname.something)

I think I understand how it works (more or less) but before uploading the app I want to check directly with another app link if it works.

My question is if I can use one of this links of one of our Apps (on a phone with acces and already configured, of course) to check if the update availability checker works or if I can only use it on the new App I'm doing and hence I need to upload it and do all the process with this "test" App

I put here the code so you can see it. Some snackbars are just for tracing the flow of the code.

UpdateInApp.kt class:

I'm trying to use the in-app update (https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-updates) to detect and install updates for my application which was published as a private app (from an EMM console).

Even if the app is visible in the Play Store the in-app update mechanism doesn't detect it immediately, but after a few hours. Is this the expected behavior?

May it be related to the fact the app is a private app?

Here's my code to check & perform the update

I tried to resolve this error but I wasn't successful with it. When is open the application the app crashes and stops instantly. Is there something am not doing right?

I want to update my app immediately every time I publish an update. I followed the instructions from the official android documentation on how to test the auto update feature , but nothing happens. I placed some logs in order to check whether these functions initialize, but the logcat shows nothing either. Is this a problem in my syntax, or should I place these functions somewhere else? Currently, all my update code is written inside the main, starting class of the app.

On create method of the class

I am showing rating popup on a different interval in my App and after the upgrade, I want to show rating popup from starting interval. For that, I have to reset its config on upgrade.

I have implemented In-App Upgrade in my App but for some reason that I don't know why it's not working can someone help me with this? It's not going to onSuccess method. I checked the developer doc, but still wondering how its checking update available or not??

Checked-in Debug & Jenkins generated apk. Is there anything that I need to look out for?