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Capawesome Cloud - The Complete Alternative to Ionic Appflow

With Ionic Appflow scheduled to discontinue on December 31, 2027, development teams using Capacitor need a reliable alternative. Capawesome Cloud has emerged as the complete solution, offering Live Updates, Native Builds, and App Store Publishing in one platform. Built specifically for Capacitor and Ionic apps, Capawesome Cloud delivers faster builds, better developer experience, and significantly lower costs than traditional CI/CD platforms. In this post, we'll explore why Capawesome Cloud is the ideal migration path for teams currently using Ionic Appflow or looking for a comprehensive mobile app deployment platform.

How Live Updates for Capacitor work

One of the biggest advantages of Capacitor over other runtimes is the ability to deliver updates in real-time, without having to resubmit the app to the app stores. This feature is referred to as Live Updates or Over-the-Air (OTA) Updates. There already exist several plugins for this, such as our Capacitor Live Update plugin, which can be integrated into your app within minutes. But how do these plugins work in detail? That's exactly what we'll look at in this blog post.

How to gradually roll out Capacitor Live Updates

Live Updates are a powerful feature that allows you to deliver updates to your Capacitor app in real-time without having to resubmit your app to the app stores. In order to ensure a smooth rollout of updates, it is recommended to gradually roll out updates to your users. This way you can minimize potential issues and collect feedback from a smaller group of users before rolling out the update to all users.

How to restrict Capacitor Live Updates to Native Versions

Live Updates are a powerful feature that allows you to deliver updates to your Capacitor app in real-time without having to resubmit your app to the app stores. However, it is important to make sure that only Binary Compatible Changes are delivered to your users to prevent incompatible updates. In this guide, you will learn how to restrict live updates to specific native versions.

Announcing the Capacitor Live Update Plugin

One of the biggest advantages of Capacitor over other runtimes is the ability to deliver updates in real-time without having to resubmit your app to the app stores, so-called Over-the-Air (OTA) updates. For this reason, we are very excited to introduce you today to our brand new Capacitor Live Update plugin. In this blog post, you will learn everything about the new plugin and how you can implement it in your Capacitor app.