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[–] Devdogg@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago
[–] baconicsynergy 3 points 1 year ago

I'm very happy!

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there something I have to enable for it to work?

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just checked, it's enabled for me by default.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no. OH NO! NOT BY DEFAULT!

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

There's a setting to disable it, but it's unfortunately hidden under "Expert mode."

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That's shit. I don't want stuff installed on my phone without my knowledge

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haven't tried it myself but https://f-droid.org/en/2024/02/01/twif.html has more details.

[–] sandayle@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neo Store was already doing this.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

huh? fdroid has been doing this for me all along, is it just because i have the privileged extension?

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not what I wanted either. But that's a good idea to have. What I want is, if, after reviewing the list of available updates, I click "update all", I should not then have to click each one to "update" and then "install" one at a time. Also, I should have the choice to say "skip this version" and "don't tell me about updates for that one ever again"

[–] sag@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Use Droid-ify with Shizuku. It have everything you want.

[–] fdroidorg@floss.social 1 points 11 months ago

@poVoq @interdimensionalmeme You can disable autoupdates in Settings (not Expert). You can also decide 'per app', in the upper right menu, to: install betas, skip this update or stop all updates.

[–] mfat@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this need root access?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

No, but it requires an feature that is only available on Android 12 and above.