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Distribute fetches updates from any public distribution group

Open JH108 opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

The portion of the documentation in question is:

it means that they'll get the latest release from any public distribution group.

I take that to mean that if I have two distribution groups, prod and dev. Then if I have enabled in-app updates via the Distribution module every time I upload a new build to prod all the users in dev will be prompted to download it. Likewise, every time I upload a build to dev all the prod users will be prompted to download the dev build.

Is that the intended functionality? Is there some sort of key we can set at build time to indicate which distribution group a build should be part of? It seems like it should fetch the new update for whichever distribution group the app was initially downloaded from just like it does for the private distribution groups.

If the intended functionality is that every time a new build is uploaded to any public distribution groups all the other distribution groups receive that same build. Then it would be nice if there was a NOTE section that makes it super clear how the process works. Or maybe the clarification on this can be put next to, "The default value is UpdateTrack.PUBLIC".

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JH108 avatar Feb 05 '21 19:02 JH108