The API that FDroid is using has only just come out. Before then, without using root and scripts to enable higher privileges, no app could auto-update in the background.
FDroid has long has the ability to automatically download updates, however installation always required a confirmation from the user for each app.
The API that FDroid is using has only just come out.
Not true. Android has supported rootless unattended upgrades at a system level since Android 12 (October 4 2021). That was nearly 2 and a half years ago, so it's been a while.
This is what Neo Store used. F-Droid only just now got around to supporting this with this recent update.
According to the article, F-droid is using a library that isn't the latest, because it doesn't support "gentle updates" (updates that are heuristically scheduled to stay out of the way of the user).
Neo Store was already doing this.
The API that FDroid is using has only just come out. Before then, without using root and scripts to enable higher privileges, no app could auto-update in the background.
FDroid has long has the ability to automatically download updates, however installation always required a confirmation from the user for each app.
Not true. Android has supported rootless unattended upgrades at a system level since Android 12 (October 4 2021). That was nearly 2 and a half years ago, so it's been a while.
This is what Neo Store used. F-Droid only just now got around to supporting this with this recent update.
According to the article, F-droid is using a library that isn't the latest, because it doesn't support "gentle updates" (updates that are heuristically scheduled to stay out of the way of the user).