Re: Automatic android OS updates

with <v8g5kd$222tb$3@dont-email.me> Jeff Layman wrote:

On 01/08/2024 13:11, Newyana2 wrote:

On 8/1/2024 4:47 AM, Jeff Layman wrote:

I'm not sure where this leaves us. Why was one system app updated
automatically and the other one wasn't? Perhaps the Play Store
update was a security one and that overrode a "do not update
automatically" setting.

Google Play Store a system app? Why? Because it's Google?

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Is there a definition for "System app"? FWIW, my Xiaomi has an option
in "Settings" called "System app settings".

[disclaimer: still nugat] I'm not in position to define what 'system
app' is or isn't (because, I'm just a quite limited source of data for
google), but I think where .apk is stored somehow hints.  For me it's
</system/app>, </system/vendor/app> and </data/app>.  All databases,
caches, and whatever goes in </data/data/app>.  Also UID and GID have
some value as encoding.

Those listed are Recorder, Music, Call settings, Notes, Camera,
Gallery, Security, System apps updater, and Xiaomi cloud. To me, only
Security and Call settings should really be referred to as system
apps. What have Music and Gallery got to with the the way that Android
works? I was going on the support.google.com webpage being titled
"Google System Release Notes".  Also, MAM refers to both Google Play
Store and Google Play Services as "System app". In contrast, for
example, it refers to Brave and iPlayer as "User app".

Can you disable "FM Radio"?  I can't.  Android is full of mistery and
misery.

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