Update all

[q-b]

Thank you for this awesome app! Love how snap it is.

Would it be possible to add a way to update all the applications in the UPDATES tab? I understand the limitation on the install part, but triggering all downloads should be easier than going through app one by one.

[mahdi1234]

Recently updated old (back up) phone after 3 months and it was really painful waiting for all the downloads each at once. This is definitely something which would improve UX a lot :)

[NoahAndrews]

I've made a basic Update All implementation in this commit: REVrobotics@63215c3

For context, I've based the Software Manager app (source code) for the upcoming REV Robotics Driver Hub on Foxy Droid. By the way, thanks for your work on this @kitsunyan!

Some notes on the Update All commit:

• The design of the Update All button is currently pretty ugly. Our in-house graphic designer will be helping me improve that in the future.
• One of the things that the Software Manager can do that Foxy Droid can't is install updates without any user interaction (this does not use root or the F-Droid privileged extension).
• You can entirely ignore the RevUpdateHandler.kt changes in that commit. That code is only useful on the Driver Hub.
• The Util.kt file will only ever contain code that is not specific to the Driver Hub. If you end up using the queueDownloadAndUpdate() function, you can put it wherever.
• The queueDownloadAndUpdate() function currently uses a single-threaded Executor, because in the Software Manager, we care a lot about preserving the order that updates get installed in.
  • This is because updates get automatically installed as soon as they are downloaded, and we need to make sure that if the Software Manager itself is being updated, that it is the last application to be downloaded and installed.
  • In case (Feature Request) Please add root installation. #8, Use privileged extension #47, or Enable app updates without user interaction #91 get implemented, Foxy Droid should probably care about this too.
  • Whether or not you use the single-threaded Executor, you definitely need to ensure that the code in the function does not get run on the main/UI thread.
• The commit moves the check for if an update file has already been downloaded from DownloadService.enqueue() to DownloadService.handleDownload(). This is also to help ensure that updates get installed in the correct order.
  • If you include this part into Foxy Droid (which you probably should, again because (Feature Request) Please add root installation. #8 and Use privileged extension #47 might happen), you also need this commit: REVrobotics@57c5a92. However, even with that fix, there still seems to be an issue, which I haven't had time to look into yet (the update starts downloading again, but the previously-downloaded update simultaneously installs).

I'm not planning on preparing a PR to Foxy Droid based on my code, but I'm more than happy to answer questions from anyone who would like to do that, so just let me know!

[mahdi1234]

Fucking amazing!!!

button is currently pretty ugly

Who cares anyway :)

[octavo]

When can we expect this update?