by Trapier Marshall
Version 1 (December 21, 2024)
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This flow facilitates controlling which app updates get applied to your device. It assumes you have automatic updates disabled in Google Play and makes it easy to review "What' changed" notes for each app before applying updates.
Google Play update notifications indicate the count of available updates, but the screen opened by clicking that notification doesn't indicate which updates are new. So when this flow sees the "Pending updates" screen, it opens the main Google Play app and navigates into "manage apps" which can be sorted by most recently updated, and then expands all changelog entries. That management screen also doesn't show updates for apps that are disabled ("frozen"), so the flow temporarily enables all apps while that screen is open or updates are in progress.
NOTE: this flow temporarily enables all apps. Examine the flow and/or disconnect block 104 if you are uncomfortable with this behvior.
KNOWN ISSUES
- English dependent. Play Store app obfuscates element IDs so we have to use element text and content descriptions.