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Channel system

With Capgo and capacitor-updater come a powerful channel system.

What you can do with channels:

  • Associate devices to channel for development, beta test or AB testing
  • Use one channel by dev branch and let your team self assign from the phone to test

You have 3 ways to assign device to channel:

  • Make the channel default, each time a new device asks Capgo for update this one answer
  • Send the deviceId (with getId method) to your backend and send from your backend to Capgo the assign order
  • Make the channel self assignable (with setChannel method), and let the device subscribe to channel (with user interaction or not)

{% hint style=“info” %} You can also, for specific case, assign a device directly to a bundle, for debug purpose for example. {% endhint %}

Channel options

Meaning of each:

  • Disable auto downgrade under native => Don’t send an update if the app native version is bigger than the channel one
  • Disable auto upgrade above major => Don’t send an update if the app native version is lower from a Major (1.2.3) than the channel one
  • Allow device to self assign => Let a device use the setChannel method to this channel
  • IOS => Allow iOS devices to download update from this channel
  • Android => Allow android devices to download update from this channel
  • Allow Emulator => Allow emulator to receive update
  • Allow development build => Allow development build to receive update

Capgo is doing some filtering for you. If you have CI/CD configured to send your version to Google PLAY, Google is running your app each time to 20+ real devices. During the 4 first hours of a new bundle, we block Google data center IP to prevent them to being counted.

Capgo don’t count emulator and dev build in your usage. Keep in mind after the trial you can’t have more than 3% of them, or that will lock your account, until you fix it.