I believe that what you really want to prevent is not the update but rather the antisocial behavior of your app when it is terminated while a download is in progress. Adding appropriate code to your onstart and onstop should take care of the problem. On Oct 3, 2013 4:54 PM, "Larry Meadors" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an app that allows a user to download a sizable file - can be > 1GB or more (full length movies). > > Recently one of our testers discovered that if he was downloading when > the play store updated the app, the download was cancelled because the > app was killed (I presume so it could be updated). > > Is there a way to prevent that? He had to re-download the entire file, > which is kind of crappy. > > Larry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
