Recently the hockey moved to app center and i want to download the latest version of android and iOS version on the fly using the API.
What I tried ?
checked the official swagger api-specs
1. @GET("/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/recent_releases")
2. @GET("/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/builds/{build_id}/downloads/{download_type}")
but the download url provided by the second url has a different host and it doesn't work.
This API:
@GET("/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/builds/{build_id}/downloads/{download_type}")
is to download builds if you use the Build service from App Center. If you only use Distribute service, try one of these APIs to get the release details, which includes the download url:
https://openapi.appcenter.ms/#/distribute/releases_getLatestByUser https://openapi.appcenter.ms/#/distribute/releases_getLatestByDistributionGroup
UPDATED
The api's has been changed, and the new api we can use is
@GET("/v0.1/public/sdk/apps/{app_secret}/releases/latest")
fun latestRelease(@Header("X-API-Token") apiToken: String, @Path("app_secret") secret: String): Call<JsonObject>
app_secret you can list your app secret using app list, use this command line.apiToken you can generate a token following these instructionsThe API's changed, and /v0.1/public/sdk/apps/{app_secret}/releases/latest is no longer supported. you can use instead
https://api.appcenter.ms/v0.1/sdk/apps/{app_secret}/releases/latest
Another better option then you can easily get any version is to use
https://api.appcenter.ms/v0.1/apps/{owner_name}/{app_name}/releases/{release_id}
Get a release with id release_id or 'latest' to get the latest release that was distributed to the current user (from all the distribution groups).
TL,DR: If the link of distribution source contains three parts you can get via releases_getLatestByDistributionGroup directly: owner_name, app_name and distribution_group_name. the value of install_url (or download_url) key is what you need.
Taking "Plus Messenger" source as example:
https://install.appcenter.ms/users/rafalense-70ux/apps/plus-release/distribution_groups/public
owner_name: "rafalense-70ux"
app_name: "plus-release"
distribution_group_name: "public"
So the link containing latest release metadata from the distgroup would be like:
Most of openapi requires a token. If you want access assets without token, beside the method mentioned above, there is also a hidden API that allows to get all "public releases" in a certain distribution group:
api/v0.1/apps/{user}/{app}/distribution_groups/{dist}/public_releases
The API returns something like this:
[
{
"id": 9,
"short_version": "1.0",
"version": "26",
"origin": "appcenter",
"uploaded_at": "2022-04-19T13:40:13.181Z",
"mandatory_update": false,
"enabled": true,
"is_external_build": false
},
]
The value of id key can be used on first api mentioned above, replace latest with the id should be enough.
This API might be similar to https://openapi.appcenter.ms/#/distribute/releases_listByDistributionGroup, while the latter needs an token to give you "not public" releases, in theory.
