Hey Stoyan, Good points there. I initially released it to all markets without protection since it was free.
I saw a big drop in installs after the problematic version was put up. Now I am thinking that this might have been a mix of installers from outside the UK getting rid of it because it wasn't relevant plus those for whom the update was crashing. I am unsure now what is going on but I have limited it to the UK (which in retrospect I should have done in the first place). The installs are going down but as I say that might not be significant. I did say to people that they should re-install but my my confidence was shot at that point so I decided to put up a slightly updated re- compiled version. I didn't have any trouble with the update to another app (Simple Weather) so I am working on the assumption at this point that it was something that I had done. I published the update at 23.30 and I might have been a bit tired and selected the wrong file, If it isn't working now I assume people will make comments as such, I haven't had any (yet). I still have confidence on in the Market. I guess we'll see on the next update. Al On Mar 20, 9:23 pm, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't go partying yet! > > Did you update the application, or you've just released it? > Is your app published as protected? > > Do yourself a favor and start browsing other apps on the Market, > mostly popular apps, it doesn't matter free or not and look at the > comments. You'll see A LOT of "force close" issues reported, part of > which presumably because apps are protected, but I've had my moments > with updates and non-stop force close issues on startup for my > non-protected apps. 99% of these were experienced by users after an > application update. > > Ask your users to re-install on problems w/ force close on startup, > hanging downloads and installs, and also ask them to rant about that > here: > > http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/ > > Cheers > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Alistair. > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks. That puts my mind at ease. Have a great weekend. > > > Al. > > > On Mar 20, 6:21 pm, Pd <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've just downloaded you app to my phone without problems. :-) > > >> Alistair. wrote: > >> > Hi I have a bit of strange request for any UK developer. I have an > >> > free application on the UK market gTraffic which is a traffic > >> > application. Somehow (not sure now) I think I uploaded the wrong file > >> > to the market on the last upgrade. Judging from the complaints it was > >> > giving a force close error. I had tested it on the dev phone so I was > >> > sure it was okay. Anyway I have recompiled, rechecked everything and > >> > published it again in the UK space only. Downloading from the market > >> > to my dev phone it works fine. I hate asking this but would a UK g1 > >> > owner like to try downloading this and verify to me that it is working > >> > okay? I am particularly interested if they have a bog-standard G1. > > >> >http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.netthreads.android.traffic --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
