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F-Droid now supports automatic background updates (liliputing.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The API that FDroid is using has only just come out. Before then, without using root and scripts to enable higher privileges, no app could auto-update in the background.

FDroid has long has the ability to automatically download updates, however installation always required a confirmation from the user for each app.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The API that FDroid is using has only just come out.

Not true. Android has supported rootless unattended upgrades at a system level since Android 12 (October 4 2021). That was nearly 2 and a half years ago, so it's been a while.

This is what Neo Store used. F-Droid only just now got around to supporting this with this recent update.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

According to the article, F-droid is using a library that isn't the latest, because it doesn't support "gentle updates" (updates that are heuristically scheduled to stay out of the way of the user).