When Will Plugin Phone Home?

[johnmiroki]

Hi, I got the plugin working on both Android and iOS. I have but one quick question: how is the "phone home" behavior configured? ie, how often does the plugin attempt to download chcp.json, or put it another way, what triggers the download?
I've noticed that on Android, it seems the plugin phones home on "resume" or start; on iOS, it will only phone home on fresh start. Is it supposed to work this way? Is there anyway to configure it?
I'd appreciate your insight.

[nikDemyankov]

Hi,

Both for Android and iOS it checks for update only on the fresh start when web page is initialised. When on Android you press "back" button - it sort of kills the app. That's why it executes the check once again on the launch.

I can make plugin to "call home" on every "resume" event both for Android and iOS. But you can do this manually from the JS side by calling "chcp.fetchUpdate" on every resume event:

document.addEventListener("resume", onResume, false);

function onResume() {
    chcp.fetchUpdate();
}

[johnmiroki]

very insightful, thanks a lot!

[lorenzyannick]

@johnmiroki
This is what I do (fecth on JS side)
works perfectly, but there is a blink because after fetch + update the plugin refresh (normal)
So you need to block UI during install phase or provide a tool to confirm on user side to prevent refresh/blink that pertub the user.

@nikDemyankov : another thing could be :
add an option like the update one (resume, start, now) https://github.com/nordnet/cordova-hot-code-push#update to refresh without JS fetch code

[nikDemyankov]

@lorenzyannick good point, this can be added.

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