Motorola DROID 2 Global, Manual

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CHAPTER 17: The Android Market
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Updating Apps
Occasionally developers will add
features or bug fixes. When there’s
an update available, you’ll see an
alert in your
Notification bar at the
top of your Home screen.
You can tap the alert to go directly
to the Android Market, or you can
launch the
Android Market app,
press the Menu button, and then
tap
Downloads.
Tap an app to view the details, and
then tap the
Update button at the
bottom of the screen.
The process for updating an app is
very similar to the process for
downloading it. You can update
everything at once by tapping
Update all
.
Tap here to
update
everything at
once.
For an app that you’ll unhesitatingly update, you can also specify that you’ll allow
automatic updates on that app’s
About page in the Android Market, as seen in Figure
17–1.
Checking the Allow automatic
updating box means available
updates will automatically install
as soon as they’re available,
unless the app changes
permissions, in which case you’ll
need to update the app manually.
Check here
to allow
automatic
updates in
the future.
CAUTION : Read the comments before updating an app or allowing automatic updates.
Sometimes an update will break something or not work with particular phone models.