Life & fun · February 19, 2014
Update Android Apps Dynamically with no User Interaction
Update Android Apps Dynamically with no User Interaction launched on February 19, 2014 with 45 votes, #508 of 1,100 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
In plain words
Evolve is a library for Android developers that enables app updates to be deployed directly to users without requiring Google Play submission or user downloads. Using reflection and dynamic bytecode generation, it allows new code to run on existing installations by deploying an initial wrapper application that Evolve then updates. This approach lets developers bypass standard app store distribution channels and deliver updates seamlessly to their user base.
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From the sources
Evolve is a library for Android Developers that lets them deploy new versions of an app without going through Google Play or asking users to download an update. It works by using reflection and dynamic bytecode generation to "trick" Android into running new code. The developer initially deploys a wrapper app that declares a bunch of "dummy" activities in AndroidManifest.xml The main activity of the wrapper app may look like the following (A sample wrapper application is provided at https://github.com/VivekPanyam/EvolveWrapper ). They then include Evolve in their actual app and change Activity to DynamicActivity (which is provided by Evolve) in all of their Activities. In their main…from blog.vivekpanyam.com
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