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.
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.
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.
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.
https://github.com/Droid-ify/client
Neo is great.
With shizuku it can do full auto updates without user interaction at all. Neo also has the fdroid, Izzy, guardian, and dozens of other repos built in.
FF updater i use for browsers. Same deal with shizuku for updates.
For op: shizuku is an app that makes use of hidden APIs and allows ADB / shell privileges and commands.
I would suggest getting the still developed and maintained fork which has substantial improvements and features over the dead rikka version
https://github.com/thedjchi/Shizuku
Mirror: https://upd.dev/thedjchi/Shizuku
F-droid basic does have it, not sure why the base app wouldn’t