Standard UI to let users disable auto-updates?

[lwouis]

Hi,

I'm a long time user of Sparkle. I'm the maintainer of AltTab. Thank you a lot for all your work on this project. It is wonderful!

Our app is still on v1.24 for now. I'm looking to upgrade to the latest 2.X. I looked up at all the documentation carefully. Also found this discussion. I couldn't quite understand what is possible to customize in the new customizable update dialog. In general, I think the documentation/website would benefit a lot from more screenshots.

Specifically, I'd like to know if it's now possible to add an option for users to "Disable checking for updates"? If not directly, maybe we can now add custom buttons/views within the dialog?

Thank you

[zorgiepoo]

For the standard UI the expectation both in Sparkle 1 and 2 is:

• On second launch of your app, Sparkle asks the user permission to allow it to check for updates automatically, so this behavior is not enabled without consent. However, you may have opted out of this if you specified SUEnableAutomaticChecks in your app's Info.plist (this is a valid choice if you don't want this prompt)
• Apps can add a user setting to disable automatic update checks (the Sparkle 1 version of the docs might be gone now, but in short you need to bind automaticallyChecksForUpdates). I suspect many apps have a user setting for updates so this is not unusual.
• An advanced technical user, given no other options, could opt out via defaults write bundle-id SUEnableAutomaticChecks -bool NO assuming your app doesn't force background checks ignoring this.

Other than that there isn't support for adding UI elements to the updater alert, short of implementing a custom updater UI. But I wager even in a custom UI that adding an option there to disable automatic checks is not a great place to do it. We also already have a lot of UI elements in the standard updater alert.

[lwouis]

Thank you very much for your help!