Play Store can now download multiple Android app updates at the same time (9to5google.com)

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[-] dmonzel@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago

What is this, 2010? I very vividly remember this feature on my Nexus One.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago

Aurora has done this for ages

[-] hunkyburrito@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Do you have to use a different installation method or something? Mine still downloads/installs one at a time

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can change the amount it downloads at once in settings. I preferred doing it one at a time, so I set it to one, but it can go higher.

[-] dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Are you sure it still works? Mine quit working at some point this year :(

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It does

[-] higgsboson@dubvee.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Works fine.

[-] Jeeve65@ttrpg.network 13 points 2 weeks ago

Just updated apps on my phone. Appears to be doing three updates at once. Still, a huge improvement.

[-] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 11 points 2 weeks ago

if(installer.getStatus == INSTALLING && store.isThereMoreUpdates){
    store.StartNextDownload();
}

Overpaid google engineers, thank me later.

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[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Great, now my apps can get AI anti-features and breaking bugs even faster

[-] silent_robo@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

At last.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

Now we just need F-Droid to do this too

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

F-droid already downloads in parallel. At least F-Droid Basic does on my phone.

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am not seeing standard F-Droid doing that

[-] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like I remember then announcing this like 4+ years ago? I mean good it finally released, I'm just shocked how long it took

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 5 points 2 weeks ago

Took them long enough lol

[-] limerod@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, I noticed this yesterday when I saw 3 apps being downloaded and updated simultaneously.

One downside I noticed was play store became too slow to do anything else and super glitchy – like pressing the update details button didn't do anything. The animation was slowed down and I couldn't load anything else in a jiffy.

When it finally started to accept user inputs pressing back it was existing the updates page and still being on the updates page. Apparently, it opened the updates view multiple times I had to close the play store app and re-open to fix the issue.

So, while it can do simultaneously updates its not glitch free and has bugs in general.

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Inshallah a miracle

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