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Not 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
by npteljes 5y ago
Not 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.