You can also still maintain automatic updates for all apps except for AM if you re-sign the cert it will be excluded from Google play.
Let's see if it developer listens to the user feedback first.
Curious what you mean by "cert sign". That may be better than what I described above about just unchecking the auto-update option for individual apps. Though in that case all the rest of the apps still do auto-update as usual. The only ones excluded are those you've chosen to exclude, and those still appear in the update-all list; they just don't actually get updated unless you choose them manually. But I like the fact that they still appear in the list as a way of reminding me, in case I want to check out a new version.
I do this with apps whose recent updates have either caused problems or are just not to my liking. Currently, in addition to AM, I also have TuneIn Radio on the no-update list because in the last two versions the Sleep Timer is not working. When they fix it - and they do say they're working on it - then I'll go back to auto-update for that app.
But I like to keep it in the main update list so I don't forget about it. I wouldn't want to use a method that made it "disappear" from the Store.
And I use Buggy Backup to keep three past apk versions of all apps, so it's easy to revert to older versions after uninstalling a problem child. (Or you can find older versions on APK Mirror)
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