Question above. Right now if I try to install nightly and I have stable installed I get prompted to update. Are we going to be able to have both installed simultaneously?
Ahh yeah, that should be the case. I don’t want the pre-release versions to be notified to everyone since it can contain breaking issues
Maybe in the future I’ll have a way to do pre-releases alongside the more stable releases, but I don’t have the capacity to do that at the moment!
Hi, how is that a capacity issue? Can’t you just give it a different app identifier?
I think I used the wrong word there - by capacity, I meant more of how much I am able to deal with at the moment!
If I introduce a new app identifier for the nightly builds, I have to then effectively manage two separate app releases/streams, which will take up time that I could use to work on new features or fix existing issues with Thunder. It’s currently a lot simpler for me to just change the version build to identify pre-releases vs. the more stable builds since that’s a one-line change for me to do
Hopefully that makes sense!
Okay, fair enough with the one flag difference for you.
But just from my understanding of android apps, which is small, isn’t the app id there simply a second line in the manifest? I help with NewPipe a bit, and every app (which is built per PR/pre-release there) gets installed as its own app.
This is incredible helpful to figure out if either a bug you encounter is actually a new issue in the nightly version or if it already exists in the last release. Or if you want to check if an old bug of yours has been fixed properly and you want to verify how you triggerd it in the old version.