Since extra setup is required to use this module in bare React Native apps, for easiest use we recommend using a template project with expo-updates already installed. You can use expo init --template=expo-template-bare-minimum to initialize a new project from such a template.
Most of the methods and constants in this module can only be used or tested in release mode; they do not make sense in debug builds where you always load the latest JS from your computer while developing. To test manual updates in the Expo client, run expo publish and then open the published version of your app with the Expo client. To test manual updates in Bare workflow apps, make a release build with npm run ios --configuration Release or npm run android --variant Release (you don't need to submit this build to the App/Play Store to test).
(boolean) expo-updates does its very best to always launch monotonically newer versions of your app so you don't need to worry about backwards compatibility when you put out an update. In very rare cases, it's possible that expo-updates may need to fall back to the update that's embedded in the app binary, even after newer updates have been downloaded and run (an "emergency launch"). This boolean will be true if the app is launching under this fallback mechanism and false otherwise. If you are concerned about backwards compatibility of future updates to your app, you can use this constant to provide special behavior for this rare case.
(string | null) If expo-updates is enabled, the UUID that uniquely identifies the currently running update. The UUID is represented in its canonical string form (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx) and will always use lowercase letters. In development mode, or any other environment in which expo-updates is disabled, this value is null.
Instructs the app to reload using the most recently downloaded version. This is useful for triggering a newly downloaded update to launch without the user needing to manually restart the app.
It is not recommended to place any meaningful logic after a call to await Updates.reloadAsync(). This is because the Promise is resolved after verifying that the app can be reloaded, and immediately before posting an asynchronous task to the main thread to actually reload the app. It is unsafe to make any assumptions about whether any more JS code will be executed after the Updates.reloadAsync method call resolves, since that depends on the OS and the state of the native module and main threads.
This method cannot be used in development mode, and the returned Promise will be rejected if you try to do so.
A Promise that resolves right before the reload instruction is sent to the JS runtime, or rejects if it cannot find a reference to the JS runtime.
If the Promise is rejected in production mode, it most likely means you have installed the module incorrectly. Double check you've followed the instructions above. In particular, on iOS ensure that you set the bridge property on EXUpdatesAppController with a pointer to the RCTBridge you want to reload, and on Android ensure you either call UpdatesController.initialize with the instance of ReactApplication you want to reload, or call UpdatesController.setReactNativeHost with the proper instance of ReactNativeHost.
Updates.UpdateEventType.UPDATE_AVAILABLE -- A new update has finished downloading to local storage. If you would like to start using this update at any point before the user closes and restarts the app on their own, you can call Updates.reloadAsync() to launch this new update.
Updates.UpdateEventType.NO_UPDATE_AVAILABLE -- No updates are available, and the most up-to-date bundle of this experience is already running.
Updates.UpdateEventType.ERROR -- An error occurred trying to fetch the latest update.
A method call was attempted when the Updates module was disabled, or the application was running in development mode
ERR_UPDATES_RELOAD
An error occurred when trying to reload the application and it could not be reloaded. For bare workflow apps, double check the setup steps for this module to ensure it has been installed correctly and the proper native initialization methods are called.
ERR_UPDATES_CHECK
An unexpected error occurred when trying to check for new updates. Check the error message for more information.
ERR_UPDATES_FETCH
An unexpected error occurred when trying to fetch a new update. Check the error message for more information.