Update Direct for Android enables developers who distribute apps outside Google Play to embed self-updating capabilities directly into their apps.
Features
- Clients automatically check for new updates at specified intervals
- Java code rendered for you based on your settings — minimal coding required
- Automatic creation of updates — point to your updated APK and it is ready for hosting
- 2048-bit RSA encryption to safeguard your apps and data
- No server-side software required — host encrypted APKs on your own website
- Client authentication support (requires PHP and SQL; optional)
- Ability to revoke a client's rights to update
- Support for mandatory updates, notice-only, and update/ignore interfaces
- All tools can be scripted into your build environment for unattended publishing
- Great for private beta tests — rapid self-updating without conventional Android markets
- RTPatch byte-level differencing reduces update sizes by 90–99%
- Available standalone or as an add-on to RTPatch for Android
- Google App Engine fully supported