iOS Version Tracking Library to update betas, let users know about new versions in production and enforce deprecated versions of your app.

Installation

The easiest way is to use CocoaPods. If you don't already, here's a guide.

pod 'VENVersionTracker', '~>0.1.0'

Outline

VENVersionTracker is designed to allow you to maintain multiple channels of released builds modeling production (App Store) and any internal release groups you may have.

e.g. At Venmo, we have:

iosteam Builds which will only go to the iOS development team e.g. 4.8.0a2

internal Builds which are shared with the company, typically promoted from iosteam e.g. 4.8.0b1

friends_and_family Builds which are shared with our friends, family members and registered beta testers. These are builds being considered for submission to production (e.g. 4.8.0rc2)

production Update the production app when updates are available

This is modelled by requesting the version for a channel from the update service (currently just static files in S3)

Usage

[VENVersionTracker beginTrackingVersionForChannel:@"production"
                                       serviceBaseUrl:@"http://mys3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/version"
                                         timeInterval:1800
                                          withHandler:^(VENVersionTrackerState state, VENVersion *version) {

        dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            switch (state) {
              case VENVersionTrackerStateDeprecated:
                [version install];
              break;

              case VENVersionTrackerStateOutdated:
                // Offer the user the option to update
              break;
            }
        });
    }];

Getting Versions

The restful endpoint (whether an actual service, or just a file in S3) should return a file with the following format:

{
   "version":{
      "number":"4.6.0rc10",
      "mandatory":false,
      "install_url":"<<ITMS INSTALL URL>>"
   },
   "min-version-number":1.0 
}

Screenshot

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request