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1. tunedal

   March 12th, 2011 @ 02:17 pm

   I don't think the actual installation can be done in the background - the final confirmation dialog you see is always displayed by the system. Market can do it because Google have given themselves special privileges.
   
   We could presumably do it somehow on rooted phones, but mine isn't and I don't know much about it.
   
   The download is technically already done in the background, so we would just have to change it to run several of those threads in parallell ("...and now you have *two* problems"). It would probably be easier to support it only on Gingerbread:
   http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DownloadManager.html
   

2. jadahl

   March 14th, 2011 @ 10:38 am

   In case a the repository client runs on a rooted device, one would need to present the required permission before a download-and-install procedure would proceed. Does the repository contain such information, or is not available until the install screen comes up?

3. tunedal

   March 15th, 2011 @ 06:29 pm

   Yeah, that information is in the repository index. I made it visible in the confirmation dialog (see commit 08816e4) before I realized the whole dialog was unnecessary and removed it (commit 7ae24e2).
   
   If we ever implement som fancier installation procedure on rooted phones we will have to reimplement that dialog properly.
   
   By the way, the permission that's needed is android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES, but it will only be granted if the application is signed with the phone manufacturer's key. (On a rooted phone with FOSS firmware, I suppose manufacturer's key is the user's key, but I don't know how we would go about it in practice.)

4. bignose

   July 28th, 2011 @ 01:06 am

   I agree that installation should not be done in the background. (Especially given that CyanogenMod now adds the ability to select and revoke specific permissions at installation time: see for the change.)
   

5. bignose

   July 28th, 2011 @ 01:07 am

   I agree that installation should not be done in the background. (Especially given that CyanogenMod now adds the ability to select and revoke specific permissions at installation time: see http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,4055 for the change.)

6. CiaranG

   May 1st, 2013 @ 02:38 pm

   Status Assigned > Won't Fix

   To even think about being able to do this we would have to a) only do it on rooted devices, and b) possibly have a different implemention per android version.