GitHub finally released an official app for Android devices last year, allowing developers to access their projects on the go while they’re away from their development environment. The app has been steadily gaining new features since its initial release, with subsequent app updates adding support for a dark theme, multi-line comment support, line wrapping toggle, and more. Now the app is receiving a new update on Android and iOS that finally adds a feature that users have been asking for the ages: support for browsing and downloading releases.
In GitHub 1.4.14, you’ll now see a new “Releases†tab on the project homepage when you open a project. Clicking on it, you’ll be able to see all the latest and previous releases posted by the developer/team along with their full release notes.
At the bottom of a release, you will see a new "Assets" section that lets you download APKs, files, or zips shared by the developer right from within the GitHub app.
Apart from adding support for GitHub Releases, the new update now also lets developers approve or reject deployment approval requests from notifications, adds a markdown bar shortcut for quotes, strikethrough, and task lists, and fixes performance glitches experienced by users when viewing issues and pull requests.
The GitHub 1.4.14 is now live on the Google Play Store. If you’re an iOS user, you can download the latest update from here.