# Coding an Update Functionality for your Android App

DevFeed: [Coding an Update Functionality for your Android App](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/coding-an-update-functionality-for-your-android-app-21158.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://juri.dev/blog/2011/02/coding-update-functionality-for-your/>)

Published: 2011-02-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Juri Strumpflohner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/juri-strumpflohner.md>)

Topics: [LineageOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/lineageos.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [APK](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/apk.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [apk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apk.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/features.md>), [implement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/implement.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [mobile-dev](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile-dev.md>), [new-features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/new-features.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explains how to add custom update functionality to an Android app intended for internal distribution or separate release channels. It covers Android version codes and names, reading the current version code, and an updater service that checks a remote version file before downloading a newer APK.

## Source excerpt

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