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It's literally 2 clicks

• kevincox 3y ago
  Yeah, what Android has seems like a very reasonable balance of protecting users who don't know better vs usability. I do have complaints about Google embedding itself and privileging its apps in Android but difficulty of sideloading is not one of them.
• ThatPlayer 3y ago
  One problem is that until recently (Android 13) it's two clicks for every app every update. Google Play Store gets to update apps in the background, but that's impossible with F-Droid (without rooting). If I want to update 10 apps on F-Droid, that's a prompt for each one.
  • kyriakos 3y ago
    Only the first app you side load requires to accept allowing non play store apps. I'm not sure about fdroid but samsung store updates are seamless same as play store.
    • ThatPlayer 3y ago
      It still requires a button to bring up the prompt. It would be a worse user experience to prompt the user without any warning. Compared to Google being able to do it all in the background. Samsung store can do it as it's bundled with the Samsung phone and installed as a system application that gets the same permissions as Google Play Store. A user can't give these permissions to a user installed app store without turning it into a system application, which isn't possible without root. For example if I tried to install Samsung's store on my Pixel. F-droid is able to do it if you have root: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/privileged-extension/ https://gitlab.com/fdroid/privileged-extension/