Unhelpful notification

[Chais]

The "update" notification feels rather unhelpful to me, in terms of the information it communicates.

<App-name> may have been updated to version <version>

That is essentially the least information possible, as it only really tells me (or rather hints) that the app-repository has a latest release not matching my currently installed version.
It doesn't tell me if the version was installed, if the installation was attempted but failed or was not attempted. Yet all this is knowable by Obtainium, if I'm not mistaken.

It knows the currently installed version and can therefore tell if an update is necessary, it already does that. Here's what I think might be a reasonable set of notifications:

• If the latest version is smaller than the installed one, it means a version was yanked. That may or may not be of interest to me, so the notification for that could be configurable.
  But I certainly don't need a notification every few hours that an app may have been updated and the only way of knowing if it was is memorising the current version.
• If the latest version is greater than the installed one, there's an update available. Obtainium can then attempt the update.
  If it succeeds, tell me. No "may have been updated." You know if it was, so tell me.
  If it fails, again, tell me.
• If an update cannot be installed automatically, also tell me. Be it because the number of APK packages changed or whatever. An update is available that cannot be attempted to be installed automatically, so I'll wanna know.

Am I making sense?

[DwainZwerg]

#2364

[Chais]

My point is that Obtainium knows whether or not an update failed. There's no need to be vague about it.

[ImranR98]

It doesn't.

[Chais]

That's surprising. Is that not something that Android communicates back to an app allowed to install APKs?

[ImranR98]

Android can, but Obtainium is a Flutter app so that makes using Android APIs more complicated. When apps are being installed in the background, it happens in a special background process which, for some reason, can't seem to wait for the result. There may be a fix for this but I haven't found it.

[malik78876]

Telelatino: The update notifications should be clearer — instead of “may have been updated,” it should tell if the update was installed, failed, or needs manual action.

[malik78876]

Yes, you’re making perfect sense — the update notification should clearly say whether the update was installed, failed, or unavailable, instead of vaguely saying “may have been updated.”
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