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About automatic silent app updates:

Which OSS app store has them? In theory I see Obtainium and Accrescent do.

However with Obtainium I've always been prompted to Update. Sure, updates were downloaded in the background but user action was required.

Can't speak for Accrescent as I have not used it.

Also, in several code tests I could not make it work despite having the right permissions (UPDATE_PACKAGES_WITHOUT_USER_ACTION) and being Android 12+.

I would appreciate feedback on this issue as I'm not even sure it's possible.
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a_priori 10mo ago

who wants automatic silent updates? that sounds like a security nightmare

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Zapstore 10mo ago

Why exactly?

In any case this feature would be opt in, and set per app

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a_priori 10mo ago

opt in 👍

updates have the potential to introduce bugs or vulnerabilities. some people advocate for not immediately getting the latest version to wait and see.

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Zapstore 10mo ago

Yes exactly. For some apps manual updates are very important, for a lot others it is not