What is available and what do they offer

Services/Plugins

• Currently in Alpha
• Not recommended to use in production apps by ionic itself
• Free while in Alpha
• http://docs.ionic.io/docs/deploy-overview

• Currently in Beta (1.5.0-beta)
• Free while in Beta
• Also available for React Native
• Open source
• by Microsoft
• https://github.com/Microsoft/cordova-plugin-code-push

Summary

• Multi environments (stage, prod, ...)
• Rollback mechanisms
• CodePush: native rollback
• Question of 'what stack'

How does it work?

Life Cycle

In 3 steps

CodePush Implementation

#1 Deployment Key

config.xml

PROTIP: or set it programmatically for stage/prod OTA updates in JS

window.codePush.checkForUpdate(
	onUpdateCheck,
	onCheckError,
	isBetaTester() ? deployKeys.beta : deployKeys.prod
);
						

#2 Security Policies

config.xml

index.html

#3 JavaScript implementation

// sugar method that does *everything*
codePush.sync();
						

"Everything" means...

• Dialog for user interaction
• Download
• Install
• Tell that the installation was successful
• Reload app

more work, more flexibility

Manual Update

Install Modes

• IMMEDIATE
• ON_NEXT_RESTART
• ON_NEXT_RESUME

Possible Update Strategies

• Regular Update
• Stealth Update
• Relentless Update

Deployment

Build ionic app

cordova prepare
// or whatever you use to package your app.
// basically to that point so that
// `ionic run [platform]` doesn't fail.
						

the packaged app will be built in:

• ./platforms/ios/www
• ./platforms/android/assets/www

Upload app with app version

code-push release justwatch ./platforms/ios/www 0.5.11 -d "ios-stage"
						

options

• --mandatory (will be inherited)
• --description "descr"

Greenlight the update

code-push promote justwatch ios-stage ios-prod