I have 2 android devices, asus and xiaomi. I don’t really use much them, meaning the few times I do I have several standing updates, most of them from f-droid.
On debian I enter a command and the machine downloads and executes all standing upgrades at once.
I don’t know if I don’t understand android, but on the gui I have to first download the application and then click again to install it. I am never shown an option to bulk download and install, which would save much time.
Is it supposed to be like this? Is there something I don’t know?
This happens on both an asus and a xiaomi device.
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on the gui I have to first download the application and then click again to install it
What “gui”? Are you using the Google Play Store app or something? Because other apps like F-Droid, Obtainium, Aurora Store, or the default GrapheneOS App Store indeed do offer a one-click “update all” button. I cannot speak for Google Play, though.
f-droid
Apparently I don’t actually have the normal F-Droid app installed. I use Neo Store and can recommend that as a better F-Droid client
https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store
Droidify is also another popular option.
Yes, google play also has an update all option.
And if you are installing one by one, you do not have a separate download and install step. And you don’t have to wait before starting another install.
Not sure what op is seeing here.
I myself use Droid-ify and it has a setting for auto update. Note that, no auto update for third-party appstores below Android 13, including F-Droid.
In F-Droid, you can queue downloads up by clicking/touching every application you want to update, and IME it usually automatically installs the updates after downloading, too - but maybe that depends on settings, the specific version of F-Droid or the specific Android ROM you’re running.
