Yay?
Damn right
I’m very happy!
Is there something I have to enable for it to work?
Just checked, it’s enabled for me by default.
Oh no. OH NO! NOT BY DEFAULT!
There’s a setting to disable it, but it’s unfortunately hidden under “Expert mode.”
That’s shit. I don’t want stuff installed on my phone without my knowledge
Haven’t tried it myself but https://f-droid.org/en/2024/02/01/twif.html has more details.
Neo Store was already doing this.
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.
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.
huh? fdroid has been doing this for me all along, is it just because i have the privileged extension?
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”
@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.
Does this need root access?
No, but it requires an feature that is only available on Android 12 and above.