create an auto updater

[RgeditV1]

Its could be great if you can add this, will be more easy for the user to update the app

You can use or mod the version.json

[dalentri]

What kind of auto-updater were you thinking of doing?

One that tells the user that an update is available and links them to the new release (which would be easiest for now) or one that downloads the update and updates it for the user?

[RgeditV1]

What kind of auto-updater were you thinking of doing?

One that tells the user that an update is available and links them to the new release (which would be easiest for now) or one that downloads the update and updates it for the user?

Well, we need to notify the user that an update is available. If the user chooses to update, it will go to the latest GitHub release and download it to a temporary folder. Then it will extract the files into the current IPTVPlus folder and close the program so the files can be updated.

We can use an external .exe made with Python to handle the update process and launch it with something like this:

QStringList arguments;

arguments << QString::number(QCoreApplication::applicationPid());
arguments << QCoreApplication::applicationFilePath();

QProcess::startDetached(updater, arguments);

QCoreApplication::quit();

This way, the main program can quit and the updater can install the new version without any problems.

We could use Qt + Python for the updater.exe interface.