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.
Cries in GrapheneOS’ slow application installs and updates.
If apps didn’t suck, and app devs weren’t manipulative shits, updates would be rare anyway.
Android 16 on graheneOS should also get the same speedup. Custom ROM developers can also choose to backport this patch to older android ROMs.
GrapheneOS’ really slow installs is because of its hardening I believe.
Wow I just read a thread about an app update taking 45mins after install. That is nuts.
Disabling JIT on modern day smartphones is too much. It will be like the android 5 Lollipop where apps took a while to install after each update. Plus, the long update cycle. Good riddance, I jumped from that time period.