"Apps" app not deleting app update packages

• /e/ version: 0.10
• Device model(s): Galaxy A3 (2017)
• Device rooted: yes/no ??

Summary

I noticed that “Apps” store was taking up a lot of space, almost 6GB today (after ~half a year of /e/ usage) and I wasn’t sure if you can delete that, or if it’s being used by other apps. I didn’t find information on this. I turns out you can - it seems those 6GB of data were app-update packages, that you obviously don’t need any more after updating.

Settings > Storage > Internal shared storage > Other apps > Apps > Clear storage.

The problem

User tcecyk from the e community forum analyzed the problem some more:

Space usage comes from former install folders listing its sub-apks within “XAPK Installer-release/temp/..” at

/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/foundation.e.apps/files

I guess the code doesn’t handle yet the cleanup after installing from those extracted XAPKs. The entries get created within installSplitApks() in app/src/main/java/foundation/e/apps/xapk/XApkInstallUtils.kt · fe80a4c9 · e / apps / Apps · GitLab 1

(Cleaning up after regular .apk installs was done in Some APK are still available in Download (#1634 (closed)) · Issues · e / Backlog · GitLab 2)