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ovr_Application_InstallAppUpdateAndRelaunch Function

Installs the app update that was previously downloaded. Once the install begins the application will exit automatically. After the installation process is complete, the app will be relaunched based on the options passed in. ovrMessage_Application_InstallAppUpdateAndRelaunch will be generated in response.
First call ovr_Message_IsError() to check if an error occurred.
If no error occurred, the message will contain a payload of type ovrAppDownloadResultHandle. Extract the payload from the message handle with ovr_Message_GetAppDownloadResult().

Signature

ovrRequest ovr_Application_InstallAppUpdateAndRelaunch(ovrApplicationOptionsHandle deeplink_options)

Parameters

deeplink_options: ovrApplicationOptionsHandle Additional configuration for this relaunch, which is optional. It contains 5 fields ovr_ApplicationOptions_SetDeeplinkMessage, ovr_ApplicationOptions_SetDestinationApiName, ovr_ApplicationOptions_SetLobbySessionId, ovr_ApplicationOptions_SetMatchSessionId and ovr_ApplicationOptions_SetRoomId.

Returns

ovrRequest
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