Auto-updating is software functionality that allows a program to maintain whether it or the supporting data is up-to-date in an automatic fashion.
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Is it possible for an Android App to Auto-Install and Run an Update?
I have an application installed on phones sitting in locked boxes in different states. It runs 24/7 and has little to no user interaction.
I know how to push updates to the marketplace...can I have a thread running in my application that sees an…
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Electron 4 Windows -> electron-builder -> auto-update: custom solution
I'm building an app for windows using Electron. To package and distribute it I'm using electron-builder. Electron-builder relies on many packages, and for auto-updates it uses Squirrel-windows.
I've been battling with auto-update on Windows for 3…
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Electron Application Cannot find Squirrel
I am writing an Electron Application for Windows with auto update capabilities, using the autoUpdater API.
app.on('ready', function(){
console.log('application emitted "ready"');
var autoUpdater = require('auto-updater');
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Stop Android OS auto-update
We have a variety of devices for testing purposes, and now that Froyo is being pushed (to the Nexus One so far at least), we have to constantly dismiss upgrade requests. There is no apparent "stop asking me" button.
So, is there any way I can…
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Application updates in Mac OS X
To provide application updates in Windows, we can simply download the installer and run it. Applications are installed in %PROGRAMFILES% and shortcuts are placed in various places. Keys and values are added to the registry to provide an entry in the…
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When should you force automatic updates?
Here's an interesting question - when should you force automatic updates? I was thinking about application updates recently, how software like Google Chrome forces automatic updates, how Microsoft uses automatic updates but doesn't force them if you…
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Serious Android Studio update issues
I had been working on Android Studio version 1.1. 2-3 days before, it asked for update to 1.2. I thought it was gonna get all the better. But, now I am facing the following problems:
Warning:The project encoding (windows-1252) does not match the…
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Is there a way to listen for changes in an MySQL database table using Java and JDBC?
I have a number of users which are logged in at a time in my desktop application.
They are working on the same table (create, read, update, delete data) so I have to update their views, to reflect changes, every few seconds - currently I am…
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Can IntelliJ update resources on Tomcat when a file is changed externally?
My company has elected to go with IntelliJ for development and deployment to a local Tomcat server. I have been doing my development on gVim, and have no desire to change.
When we were using eclipse I was able to have eclipse republish resources…
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How to implement auto-update functionality for web application on multiple server?
I need an idea how to implement following
1. Want to build python application which will update itself when the new patch is available
2. It will run the unit test to check if the patch deployed successfully
3. If there are any failure during…
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Download content when app is updated via google play?
So this is the first time I am going to send an update for my app and I don't know about what actully happens when an app is updated via google-play,
Here are some questions those I couldn't get answer of :
What is actually updated and how this…
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Will Google Play service update a running App?
I am publishing an App on Google Play, which will need to update automatically.
The App is for a kiosk, and will therefore remain open and running for very long periods of time without the application ever being restarted for the nature or the…
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iOS auto updates
It takes 10 days to submit update and wait it to be reviewed.
One of my farm games I that I installed on iPad shows "downloading updates" when I run it.
Is it good idea to implement updates in iOS app like that?
Is it permitted by Apple?
Do you…
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Update textbox during typing
In Access, I have a form in which there are three textboxes.
I am trying to update a textbox called tbxCombinedName with a combination of both:
textbox tbxLastName (person's Last Name)
textbox tbxFirstName (person's First Name)
My question is:…
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Updating library for Jar/Programs
I'm looking for an update library for the software I am developing. It's a small software, but I'd like to imbue it with some nice features. One of those is auto-update. I've developed 2 class library to do this job for me, but I'd like a more…
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