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Say I have an application that users have installed from the Play Store, if one of my users reports a bug and I want to send them a patched version of the app to test, they can install it to their phone just fine. But if I then update the app on the Play Store, will the user get the update? My testing seems to indicate this is the case, but is there any gotchas?
The way my build process works is that each time I build, it gets a higher version code, so the patched version will have a higher version code that the one currently in the Play Store and then the version I upload to the Play Store after sending my user the patch will have a higher version code again.
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Google Play will notify your users that the app has an update via the notification bar. If you set up a notification system yourself, the likely result would be that, although the user is notified of an update sooner, when he/she goes to Google Play to install the update it will not yet be available.
This process typically takes 1-3 days to complete. Following an initial rollout, you can review your app's status and understand your app's availability on Google Play.
I'm taking a decently wild guess here, but it should work, provided the following are met:
I'm decently sure this will work, as I recall a long discussion about this on one of the android google groups that ended with success. I unfortunately cannot find it right now.
If you do try it out, please post back with the results.
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