Comment on Google Play Store listing apps installed from F-Droid that it cannot update

• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I’ve only been seeing it in the past few months, definitely less than one year. Before that this never happened even when I had affected apps installed. Notably the Wikipedia app.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I have experienced it for at least 5y or so, back when I ran CalyxOS. It would try to override the sim tool at every opportunity when calyx used a custom version. With GrapheneOS, I have always (3y) had a stub apk to give me the preview picture in gCam without requiring gPhotos, and it bitches and errors constantly if you don’t turn off auto-updating. Tasks.org joined it recently since I use Obtainium (not f-d); it’s been happening with quite a few apps, just Tasks has been out of sync for the Github release vs play store release.

    Android knows if an apk is installed from the ps or not, this would be a two-line if-statent fix. But there’s no incentive for them to make using alternative stores/methods work better than the bare minimum, so they don’t :(

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