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Migrating from App Center to Capawesome Cloud

Microsoft App Center is being retired, leaving many developers looking for alternatives to continue delivering over-the-air updates and building their mobile applications. Capawesome Cloud provides a powerful, modern solution for Capacitor apps that offers seamless Live Updates and enterprise-grade features.

This guide will walk you through migrating your Capacitor app from App Center to Capawesome Cloud, focusing on replacing App Center's CodePush functionality with Capawesome Live Updates while maintaining your existing workflow and improving your app's update delivery system.

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.

The File Handling Guide for Capacitor

Handling files in Capacitor can be a crucial part of your app. Whether you want to read, write or share a file, it is essential to understand the best practices in file handling to avoid potential out of memory (OOM) issues. In this guide, we will explore what you need to consider when dealing with files on Android and iOS and how to ensure efficient and reliable file management.

How to patch a Capacitor plugin

Learn how to apply small changes to a Capacitor plugin without forking or maintaining the entire plugin. This is especially helpful when you need a hotfix for a plugin that isn't yet available in the official version, or when you need to make quick adjustments to accommodate your specific project requirements.