I am currently experimenting with automating app updates.

Through Android

This is not an option as android sucks. Even F-Droid Basic cant do full autoupdates for many apps, as they are not on the supported new SDKs

Externally from F-Droid

This is way less secure than using the F-Droid store itself poorly, as there is no verification.

But in theory you could take the release APKs from the F-Droid website, download and install them. A link looks like this:

https://f-droid.org/repo/com.simplemobiletools.calendar.pro_240.apk

The problem is the naming, which is a pretty random xxx digit and sometimes the date, so you would have to check 999 possible links only to find out that there is no update? Currently I know no better option, maybe using the F-Droid API like all the Android stores do would work well.

From Github releases

This is easier, because https://github.com/creator/app/releases/latest is an alias to the latest tag. Somehow it is possible to get the tag URL there, and an example Download link looks like this

https://github.com/tw-hx/Signal-Android/releases/download/v6.35.3.0-FOSS/Signal-Android-play-foss-prod-universal-release-signed-6.35.3.apk

This is possible, a kind AI gave me this code:

``` #!/bin/bash

GitHub repository and release URL

repo_url="" release_url="$repo_url/releases/latest"

Extract the latest release tag

latest_tag=$(curl -sI -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}' "$release_url" | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}')

Construct the download link

download_url="$repo_url/releases/download/$latest_tag/APPNAME-$latest_tag.apk"

Define the folder name

folder_name="APP-Updates-$(date '+%d-%m-%Y')"

Create the folder

mkdir -p "$folder_name"

Download the latest APK

wget -nv -P "$folder_name" "$download_url"

Display success message

echo "Downloaded App APK: APPNAME-$latest_tag.apk"

Install the app using waydroid

waydroid app install "$folder_name/APPNAME-$latest_tag.apk"

Remove the installed APK

rm -f "$folder_name/APPNAME-$latest_tag.apk"

Clean up: Remove the folder

rm -rf "$folder_name"

Display completion message

echo "Updates completed." ```

This is not checked yet.

What would your solution look like? I guess using Github and FDroid APIs would be best