Scrcpy

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Just noticed that scrcpy 3.2 was released, but the version in the Snap Store is several releases behind. Does anyone know if it will ever be updated? Thought the purpose of installing apps from the Snap Store was that it would be automatic?

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Snaps do automatically update on your machine, when a new snap version is made available.

However, the snap repository itself isn’t automatically updated from a developer’s website. That depends on someone taking the trouble to create a snap of the product.

Canonical doesn’t maintain scrcpy in the snap repository. In other words, someone unrelated to Canonical created the current snap version, and hasn’t wanted to update it further (maybe they haven’t had the time).

In such cases, if you need the latest version, it’s best to get it elsewhere. I recommend the official release on GitHub.

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$ snap info scrcpy
name:      scrcpy
summary:   Display and control your Android device
publisher: sisco311
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/scrcpy
contact:   https://github.com/sisco311/scrcpy-snap/issues
license:   Apache-2.0
description: |
  This application provides display and control of Android devices connected on USB (or over
  TCP/IP). It does not require any root access.
  
  This is an unofficial snap. The code of scrcpy can be found at:
  https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
snap-id: M7yvgnqOvyQj64bolfpawIAEwHv7dQ5G
channels:
  latest/stable:    v1.25             2022-12-28 (399)  87MB -
  latest/candidate: ↑                                        
  latest/beta:      v1.25-1-g4c43784f 2022-12-28 (401)  87MB -
  latest/edge:      v1.21-2-g5704ec6  2021-12-07 (358) 101MB -

Per that, try contacting the snap’s maintainer at GitHub · Where software is built

Also, Snap is not Ubuntu, and while both are Canonical products (like LXD, Microcloud, etc.) they have a separate forum at https://forum.snapcraft.io

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