Android 14's "update ownership" warning is now appearing across multiple Samsung Galaxy devices
  • antihumanitarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    If I’m understanding this right, and this basically an API that lets you pick which app store administers an app, that could be quite helpful, not harmful. I currently have fdroid, play store, and Samsung store, and I assume they try to update apps by the fully qualified name, as multiple stores show and try to update a single app instance, sometimes with weird results.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think that’s really what this is. This sounds like an additional warning screen, on top of the warning screen you already get when you manually install apps from anything other than the Play Store. I expect you’ll still get the same old warning screen even after you pass this screen the one time.

      FYI, if you have root there is a Magisk module that gives FDroid the privilege to install apps without the popup.

  • denast@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    I really hope this will just replace the update dialogue, not add another one on top of it. Manually tapping “update” for all Fdroid apps is a huge slog already

    • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      My understanding is that this dialog won’t appear if you update apps from f-droid or other 3rd party store, but only if:

      1. The app was installed from one store (or just the play store, not sure), and
      2. You are now trying to update the app by downloading an apk from somewhere else (e.g. a browser)

      That would normally fail because the signatures don’t match, but I guess there are places, like apkmirror, where you can find apks that are signed by the original developer (and so, they are authentic and 100% safe), but then google will give you a warning that you might not receive updates and such.

      At least, that’s my understanding. A tiny bit annoying, but not a big deal.