react native version check package make app crash

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I have installed react-native-version-check by yarn into my project when I use some functions the app crash sending me this message: WARN [TypeError: Network request failed]

this only happens when I'm using these functions only: VersionCheck.getLatestVersion() VersionCheck.needUpdate()

The same thing happens using react-native-check-version package function

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3 Answers

There has been some unresolved issues regarding this package and especially those functions that you mentioned. I had faced the same issue previously, my suggestion would be to go with a backend driven version check. You can maintain a table to store the latest version, force update flag, etc. Also since these 2 functions are promise, you can check what they are returning.

VersionCheck.getLatestVersion({
  forceUpdate: true,
  provider: () => fetch('http://your.own/api')
    .then(r => r.json())
    .then(({version}) => version),   // You can get latest version from your own api.
}).then(latestVersion =>{
  console.log(latestVersion);
});

VersionCheck.needUpdate()
  .then(async res => {
    console.log(res.isNeeded);    // true
    if (res.isNeeded) {
      Linking.openURL(res.storeUrl);  // open store if update is needed.
    }
  });
user_104358370

After some search in the library to know what was making this error it was actually the fetch API I had to put these lines of code in my build.gradle

dependencies {
   api(platform("com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp-bom:4.7.2"))
   api("com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp")
   api("com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor")
}

after adding those lines everything worked just fine

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