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There are lots of things that could be improved. Here's my pet peeve: Android regularly checks the Android Market for updates available for your apps. It doe
by jcl 16y ago
There are lots of things that could be improved. Here's my pet peeve:
Android regularly checks the Android Market for updates available for your apps. It doesn't just check for updates to apps you currently have installed, but for any app you ever installed, including ones you later removed. I guess the logic is that if you uninstalled an app because of a bug, you will want to know when it is updated so that you can try it again. If Android finds any updates, it posts a little "market" icon in the notification bar. If you select the notification, it takes you to a screen showing your downloads, which lists every app you have ever installed. From that screen you can update installed apps (one-at-a-time only), and you can reinstall uninstalled apps.
The problem is that the download screen only tells you an app is updated if it is currently installed. There is no way to tell which uninstalled apps have been updated. So if you have tried out a large number of apps, you can easily be in a situation where the notification icon tells you several apps have updated, but when you go to the download page, all your apps appear up-to-date. This greatly reduces the value of update notifications.
- gmjosack 16y agoThis is the drive me crazy though i havent experienced it since moving to a 2.x device. Applications no longer appear in downloads view once you uninstall them.