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Experimental support for un-archiving apps on Android 15

Torsten Grote requested to merge grote/fdroidclient:unarchive into master

Depends on !1452 (merged)

Some background on app archiving on Android 15:

The feature is poorly documented, but there's bits and pieces in various places, so I tried to understand the feature from those:

Archiving requires the installer of the app to be available and have support for un-archiving. So the system takes care of archiving itself, but then needs us to do the un-archiving which is basically re-installing the app. I implemented initial support for that:

Screen_recording_20240927_155152

There's other improvements we could do, but they are not part of this initial MR:

  • how to choose which version of the app to install
  • show archived apps in our UI:
    • unarchive button in app details
    • show unarchived apps in list of installed apps
Edited by Torsten Grote

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