Implementation time: ~20 minutes

What you need

• A paid plan (because the free plan doesn't allow you to publish to app stores)
• Working mobile app on the iOS and/or Android app store(s)
• Splash screen assets
• Lottie animation (optional), for eg. from Lottie Files
• App downloads link manager (for eg. https://www.onelink.to/)

<aside> 💡 This tutorial was inspired by a topic on the Adalo community forum and a question that I personally posted too. After lots of experimentation and racking my brains, I came up with a way to do it without too much complication.

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You've published your native mobile app to the various app stores and the monthly active users start to grow — yay!

But you're making some breaking changes that would require your users to update the app. How can you "force" them to update the app before continuing to use it? Kind of like a mandatory update, if you will.

Well, you could send in-app notifications, but users can just dismiss it. You definitely NEED a way to check if the users are on the latest version of the app, otherwise, force them to update before continuing use.

How I personally feel about notifications on my phone lmao

While there's no inbuilt function in Adalo to do that, we can create our own, and it's not exactly complicated. Let's get right into it.