Finally all that power won’t be wasted waiting for a single app download to finish and install.
Now, they should do simultaneous app updates. That’s the slowest process on my phone.
I don’t get the hype over this. How often do you find your day interrupted by Play Store downloads that one finds this to be an important upgrade? My apps generally update while I’m asleep, I pretty much never need to wait for them.
Kinda handy during first time setup though. Can easily be 30 system apps updating, plus all the shit you might be grabbing from previous installs.
Ahh yeah, that’s a good point, I forgot about the recovery process. In that case, yeah I can absolutely see this saving a bunch of time when transferring devices.
Swapping to new phones is really dreadful because of apps installs. It seems like the whole process is great EXCEPT app installs.
This is for app installs not updates.
They so need to add this for updates too
I thought they already added this for updates.
Sadly not. I’m forever watching apps download updates in single file
Now windows just need simultaneous program uninstallations.
So much innovation happening at Google
God, how pathetic they’re only doing this now, Aurora Store has had this for ages!
wasn’t it a thing before? like when android 4 was still a thing
It was for parallel downloads when updating not for new app installs and it was later removed.
Wait? What?! Android didn’t support this basic feature? iPhone did for quite some time now…
I’m pretty sure F-droid could do it to
I have never seen F-Droid do this, at least on the default settings.
It actually does with the default setting, but it doesn’t show individual progress bars, making it harder to notice. You basically have the “updating repositories…” bar on the very top, and then one after another the apps get the green “update” button. At this point however the updates have already been downloaded, and the button starts the installation of the update locally.
Well, I’m on the newest version, and I don’t see that. When I have multiple updates, it downloads the one, and since I’m on Android 13, it installs it, then it downloads the next one, and installs that one, and so on and so forth.
Very strange. We’re talking about the official F-Droid, 1.19.1?
1.20.0-alpha1
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This is what happens on my phone when I update apps at the same time:
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Finally all that power won’t be wasted waiting for a single app download to finish and install.
Wait, what do you mean by this?
It takes ages updating apps one by one. Your smartphone is capable enough to download
and updatemultiple apps simultaneously speeding the install process significantly.Edit: just downloads for now and hopefully updates in the future
Sure, but why would this lead to a decrease in power consumption? I’m not sure that follows.
Modern phones do a thing called “race to sleep”. If they’re awake every other background process also runs, so it’s beneficial to do the task as quickly as possible then go back to sleep.
I’m still waiting
