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>Then they can't provide auto-updates but require a manual confirmation for each version update. Is this true? Did they change the install permission to one t
by jayd16 6y ago
>Then they can't provide auto-updates but require a manual confirmation for each version update.
Is this true? Did they change the install permission to one time use or something?
- Fwirt 6y agoThere are two different layers: The app has to have OS permission to install APKs, and then the app has to have user permission to install each individual APK. Android will prompt you each time. The only apps exempt from this are "system" apps (baked into the root-only partition) which are allowed to install/upgrade software without asking the user. It makes sense from an anti-malware perspective, but then again most malware finds ways around this anyway so you could argue that it serves no purpose and is only user hostile.
- ThatPlayer 6y agoYes. For example, F-Droid, the FOSS store requires a rooted phone to be able to install/update applications on it's own. Even itself. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged...