react-native-appstore-version-checker !npm


A react native module to check an app's version on playstore or ios app store.
This module can be used to check if your app has a new version on playstore or apple app store.
or you can even check what is the latest version of another app on playstore.

Getting started

npm install react-native-appstore-version-checker --save

or

yarn add react-native-appstore-version-checker

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react-native link react-native-appstore-version-checker

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#### iOS

Nothing to be done here ( its pure JS for IOS ;) )

#### Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

- Add import com.masteratul.RNAppstoreVersionCheckerPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
- Add new RNAppstoreVersionCheckerPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

``
include ':react-native-appstore-version-checker'
project(':react-native-appstore-version-checker').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-appstore-version-checker/android')
`

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

`
compile project(':react-native-appstore-version-checker')
`

Usage

`javascript
import { getAppstoreAppMetadata } from "react-native-appstore-version-checker";

or;

var getAppstoreAppMetadata = require("react-native-appstore-version-checker")
.getAppstoreAppMetadata;

//On Android u can do
getAppstoreAppMetadata("com.supercell.clashofclans") //put any apps packageId here
.then(metadata => {
console.log(
"clashofclans android app version on playstore",
metadata.version,
"published on",
metadata.currentVersionReleaseDate
);
})
.catch(err => {
console.log("error occurred", err);
});

//On IOS u can do
getAppstoreAppMetadata("529479190") //put any apps id here
.then(appVersion => {
console.log(
"clashofclans android app version on appstore",
metadata.version,
"published on",
metadata.currentVersionReleaseDate
);
})
.catch(err => {
console.log("error occurred", err);
});
`

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#### IOS

Finding appid for an ios app

Search for an app on itunes store. Lets take the example of clash of clans.





The area marked on red is the app's appid

#### ANDROID

Finding packageId for an android app

Search for an app on playstore. Lets take the example of clash of clans.





The area marked on red is the app's packageId

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`javascript
getAppstoreAppMetadata(identifier, options);
`

params:

- identifier is the app package id like com.example.app

- options contains values which can affect the result obtained from the store

- jquerySelectors [Android] object with metadata property names to dom dom element identifiers (much like jquery selector) for playstore app page. Currently to get the appversion from the page we do load https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id= and parse $('body > [itemprop="softwareVersion"]') but you can optionally pass in a custom selector if you want. This is useful if dom structure of the app store page changes in the future.

- typeOfId [iOS] (default is id) It can be either id or bundleId. If the typeOfId is id you need to pass identifier as appid and if typeOfId is bundleId you need to pass bundleIdentifier to identifier. It is basically, the query parameter for https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?${typeOfId}=${identifier}.

Currently to get the ios version number from app store we hit the url https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id= by default.
or we can also hit
https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?bundleId= if we pass typeOfId as bundleId.
When we hit the above said urls we get json with all the info of the app.

- country [iOS] (default is us) The two-letter country code for the store you want to search. The search uses the default store front for the specified country.

`javascript
const storeSpecificId =
Platform.OS === "ios" ? "529479190" : "com.supercell.clashofclans";

getAppstoreAppMetadata(storeSpecificId, {
jquerySelectors: {
version: "[itemprop='softwareVersion']"
},
typeOfId: "id",
country: "de"
});
`

`javascript
getAppstoreAppVersion(identifier, options);
`

getAppstoreAppVersion has been maintained with previous versions for backwards compatibility. The only difference is that instead
of jquerySelectors, the options objet only takes one selector for the app version and it's called jquerySelector.

Example

`javascript
const storeSpecificId =
Platform.OS === "ios" ? "529479190" : "com.supercell.clashofclans";

getAppstoreAppVersion(storeSpecificId, {
jquerySelector: "[itemprop='softwareVersion']",
typeOfId: "id",
country: "de"
});
``

Quick note: it will get the public version from stores, that is, will not get alfa, beta or internal versions.

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- Atul R
- Dmytro Gorelik
- Oleg Filimonov
- Carlos
- EricH
- Regan Langford
- Yuttana K
- Luís
- Grover TB
- David Saltares

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MIT

© Atul R