Droid X: The Missing Manual

Updating Apps

Apps are often updated, and the nice thing about the Droid X is that it tells you when any are ready for updating—and then updates them with a single tap. When an update is available, you see this icon in the Notification bar. Drag down the bar, tap the notification icon, and you see a list of all the apps that have updates available, as well as all your downloaded apps.

Note

There’s another way to get to your list of downloaded apps, including those that need updating. From the Android Market, press the Menu key and select Downloads.

Tap any update you want to download, and you see the description page you normally see before downloading an app, except that the buttons at the bottom have changed. Tap Update to update the app, and Uninstall to uninstall it. When you tap Update, you get a warning that the new, updated app will replace the existing app. Tap OK, and you see the features and information the app will use. Tap OK again, and the Droid X downloads the app in the background. You see its progress as it downloads, but you don’t have to watch it unless you really want to.

Tip

If you don’t want to keep getting notifications that apps are ready to be updated, then when you’re ...