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Because going into F-Droid and clicking "update" is too hard? You're already inside F-Droid every now and then anyway.
by techrat 5y ago
Because going into F-Droid and clicking "update" is too hard? You're already inside F-Droid every now and then anyway.
- mixedCase 5y ago> Because going into F-Droid and clicking "update" is too hard? Yes. The average user doesn't even understand what updates are for and the extra inconvenience for everyone else is just an anti-competitive practice masquerading as a security feature.
- techrat 5y agoWhat's anticompetitive is not allowing another app or app store to be sideloaded at all. Quit being disingenuous.
- detaro 5y ago> What's anticompetitive is not allowing another app or app store to be sideloaded at all. Yes, that's anticompetitive too. And?
- techrat 5y agohttps://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-stores-update-apps-background https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-st... You can stop crying now.
- rtkwe 5y agoLess anticompetitive is still anticompetitive!
- techrat 5y agoUpdate your talking points. https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-stores-update-apps-background https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-st... - Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps without bothering the user
- selfhoster11 5y agoThat's what's happening _now_. This situation with third party stores not being able to auto-updates has been an issue for years. It is great that it's changing now, but it doesn't invalidate the fact that this was a persistent problem.
- techrat 5y agoTLDR: You want to continue to whine about it even though you're getting exactly what you want.
- enkrs 5y agoIf the average user doesn't even understand what updates are, he's better off in the Play Store anyway. Why force F-Droid on him?
- rakoo 5y agoBecause libre software focus on user privacy among other things, and that isa good reason to install apps from that store
- npteljes 5y agoNot sure if you're aware, the current way is to tap Update, which downloads the APKs for each installed app. Then, for each app, you need to tap Install, wait 0.1-2s, then tap Install again, then wait until the update is done. I currently have around 20 installed from the store. This all is to show that Google is low-key hostile to apps installed from sources other than the Play store. Which was the point of the parent comments.
- techrat 5y agoYes. I'm aware. I still think you're blowing it way out of proportion. Show me someone who is aware of FDroid who doesn't have the technical know how to update apps after sideloading FDroid itself...
- npteljes 5y agoThis is not about the know-how, but rather about how Google treats other Android stores.
- techrat 5y agoWhich hasn't changed in any way from the day the very first app store could be sideloaded. Much ado about nothing.
- npteljes 5y agoSearchableguy actually linked an article above where it says this will change, finally. (I wasn't aware either.) https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-stores-update-apps-background https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-st...
- selfhoster11 5y ago> Show me someone who is aware of FDroid who doesn't have the technical know how to update apps after sideloading FDroid itself... My mother, for one. I use F-Droid to let her auto-update NewPipe, since she uses that to download and listen to music in ways that the official application will never let her. Needless to say, NewPipe is not about to be made available on Google Play due to a conflict of interests.
- piaste 5y agoYou still need to install and approve the native popup for each individual app update. If you have more than a handful of F-Droid apps, it gets quite tedious. I bought a new phone just this week, and I'm looking forward to putting a custom ROM on it in part also to have more control over this sort of thing.
- techrat 5y agoEven with a custom rom you still have to approve a native popup for each individual app update.
- selfhoster11 5y agoCustom ROMs usually allow root access, which lets you install the auto-update feature add-on for F-Droid.
- techrat 5y agoOh look, stock roms on phones with an unlocked bootloader also allow root access.
- selfhoster11 5y agoI'm not saying it's easy, I'm saying it's an available option in a very limited set of circumstances.