With Ionic's recent announcement about discontinuing commercial products including Appflow by December 31, 2027, many teams are looking for alternative solutions for their live update needs. Capawesome Cloud provides the only drop-in replacement for Ionic Appflow, making migration straightforward while preserving your existing workflows.
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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.
We are excited to announce the launch of the Capawesome Cloud Open Source Program! This program is designed to support open source projects and developers by providing free access to Capawesome Cloud, our powerful platform for delivering Over-the-Air (OTA) updates to Capacitor apps.
With Ionic Appflow scheduled to discontinue on December 31, 2027, development teams using Capacitor need a reliable alternative. Capawesome Cloud has emerged as the complete solution, offering Live Updates, Native Builds, and App Store Publishing in one platform. Built specifically for Capacitor and Ionic apps, Capawesome Cloud delivers faster builds, better developer experience, and significantly lower costs than traditional CI/CD platforms. In this post, we'll explore why Capawesome Cloud is the ideal migration path for teams currently using Ionic Appflow or looking for a comprehensive mobile app deployment platform.
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.
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.
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.
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.