TL;DR
- Android 16 introduces “seamless app updates” to make installing app updates faster and less disruptive.
- This feature significantly reduces the time an app is frozen during an update, cutting it from seconds to milliseconds.
- The improvement is achieved by running optimization scripts earlier in the installation process, reducing app downtime.
Yes, but that shouldn’t have anything to do with downtime. This is exactly what happens when you install something from source à la any
-gitpackage from AUR. It’s slower than installing binaries, but downtime is a completely different issue. Am I missing something?Downtime in this context means the time where you can’t use the application while its update is being installed
This process was not started until the app was frozen until android 16. This added a few seconds to every app install.