Production Use?

[EisenbergEffect]

I've been looking around to see if anyone had done something like this. I was wondering if this was safe for production use, or only suitable for testing. Can I put an app in the Apple AppStore with this updater in it? or will that be rejected? Have you tried something like this?

Also, I find this interesting as a technique to load plugins to an app. The idea being that the app wouldn't auto-update, but that certain functionality might be dynamically plugged in depending on what the user is doing. Would this technique be suitable for that? Would there be a problem with any of the app stores?

Thanks!

[lylepratt]

Supposedly Apple allows this: https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/10/02/Apple-hot-code-push-mobile

Since I saw that stuff last week about meteor using this in production, I've been wanting to do the same with my Cordova apps. I believe I'm going to give it a shot.

@torrmal Would you mind tell us a little about your experience using this and what you wrote it for?

[driverdan]

I wouldn't consider this code suitable for production. The MD5 code, for example has the comment MD5: Cant remember where i got this one from which means the quality of it and license are unknown.

[lylepratt]

I agree. However, there are many MD5 javascript libraries out there that are MIT licensed: https://github.com/blueimp/JavaScript-MD5

The code is straightforward. May just do something similar with an Angular module.

[hems]

@driverdan lol nice joke!