Google tests pushing system updates with the Play Store in Android Q

Google tests pushing organization updates with the Play Store in Android Q

While this could exist a fashion to get updates to users chop-chop, the Play Shop already has malicious apps that claim to update Android

Google is reportedly testing a new way to push organisation updates to Pixel phones in Android Q: the Play Store.

A Pixel 3 user running Android Q Beta two posted on Reddit that his phone downloaded a 'Google System Update,' which appeared similar to how app updates announced when a telephone downloads them from the Play Store.

After downloading the file, the Redditor's device restarted automatically. During the boot procedure, the phone displayed a 'Yard' logo on a white background with a loading indicator — only like when you perform a system update.

Farther, information technology appears the update wasn't a total Bone update, as the device'southward build number didn't alter. Oddly, there was no trace of a modify subsequently the upgrade completed, and there isn't any in-app UI for the update beyond a notification.

This suggests Google is still testing the procedure, then nosotros could run across more pieces added as the Q beta continues. Hopefully, that includes a screen with information about what was downloaded.

Play Store system update

The Redditor'due south screenshot shows the phone downloading a 'Google System Update'

Co-ordinate to 9to5Google, the search giant has toyed with a organisation to button updated with the Play Shop in the past. However, Google hasn't officially detailed anything about a new blazon of system updates.

It could exist planning to announce information technology at Google I/O 2019.

While Play Store system updates may seem like a cracking manner to improve the adoption of Android updates on the surface, I accept some reservations about the idea. For i, this test appears to arbitrarily download and apply an update with no information almost what it downloaded or why.

If Google maintains this functionality into an official release, it could really mess with people, mainly if the phone downloads an update with a bug without you knowing. Imagine trying to troubleshoot that!

Worse, the Play Store already has a swath of malicious apps that claim to update your Android version. Should Google become forward with moving organisation updates into the Play Store, information technology could lend acceptance to these apps, specially for users who don't know meliorate.

Source: Reddit Via: 9to5Google