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Live Updates for Nuxt Capacitor Apps with Capawesome Cloud

Live Updates, also known as Over-the-Air (OTA) or hot code updates, are a way to push updates to your Android or iOS app without going through the app store review process. This is particularly useful for fixing bugs, adding new features, or making changes to your app without requiring users to download a new version from the app store. For this, we will use the Capacitor Live Update plugin from Capawesome in combination with Capawesome Cloud.

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Capawesome Cloud as alternative to Appflow

Ionic Appflow is a popular platform for building and deploying mobile apps, offering features like native builds, app publishing, and Live Updates. However, it can be quite expensive, especially for teams with a large number of monthly active users. This is where Capawesome Cloud comes into play, offering a more affordable and advanced alternative for Live Updates in Capacitor apps. In this post, we will compare the two platforms and highlight the key differences, features, and benefits of using Capawesome Cloud for Live Updates in Capacitor apps.

How Live Updates for Capacitor work

One of the biggest advantages of Capacitor over other runtimes is the ability to deliver updates in real-time, without having to resubmit the app to the app stores. This feature is referred to as Live Updates or Over-the-Air (OTA) Updates. There already exist several plugins for this, such as our Capacitor Live Update plugin, which can be integrated into your app within minutes. But how do these plugins work in detail? That's exactly what we'll look at in this blog post.

How to gradually roll out Capacitor Live Updates

Live Updates are a powerful feature that allows you to deliver updates to your Capacitor app in real-time without having to resubmit your app to the app stores. In order to ensure a smooth rollout of updates, it is recommended to gradually roll out updates to your users. This way you can minimize potential issues and collect feedback from a smaller group of users before rolling out the update to all users.

How to restrict Capacitor Live Updates to Native Versions

Live Updates are a powerful feature that allows you to deliver updates to your Capacitor app in real-time without having to resubmit your app to the app stores. However, it is important to make sure that only Binary Compatible Changes are delivered to your users to prevent incompatible updates. In this guide, you will learn how to restrict live updates to specific native versions.

Announcing the Capacitor Live Update Plugin

One of the biggest advantages of Capacitor over other runtimes is the ability to deliver updates in real-time without having to resubmit your app to the app stores, so-called Over-the-Air (OTA) updates. For this reason, we are very excited to introduce you today to our brand new Capacitor Live Update plugin. In this blog post, you will learn everything about the new plugin and how you can implement it in your Capacitor app.