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You can now install or update up to four apps concurrently from the Google Play Store (www.gsmarena.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's the point? Updating four apps four times as slowly simultaneously is the same as updating four apps at four times the speed consecutively, and you would have the same internet speed either way.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

In my experience (not in Android apps but in Arch Linux updates) parallel downloads are almost always waaay faster. Magnitudes faster. Using multiple cores? Is it the bottleneck actually enforced by the server? I don't know, I just know it works.

And if they did it, it's because it works on Android too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not how it was done before, though. It wouldn't download update A, start installing A, then trigger downloading update B while A was installing. A would have to finish installing before B could even start downloading.

Especially for smaller updates, the overhead of the network handshaking to start the download can actually make doing 3/4 downloads at once faster than sequencing them. For larger updates, it matters less, but it's not a negative.

You can still use an app while the update is downloading. You only can't while the update is installing, and installations still have to happen sequentially (limitation of Android). It only really matters if you want to specifically use an update right away, but then you can just manually trigger the update for just that app.