Topic

Code Push and OTA Updates

Delivery of application code updates directly to installed apps, skipping app store submission. Limited to the parts of an app that can be loaded dynamically rather than compiled into the native binary.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Shorebird's Dart-only patches swap store review for the user's next app restart

A one-line logic error took about 8 hours to fix on Android and 12 on iOS through the stores, so one Flutter team moved Dart fixes to code push, where the wait is a background download and a restart.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption30
Hype gap+12
Incentives: Insufficient
Confidence48