Yes, but I don't think they continue to check it when the app is installed to the SD card.
I am still getting lots of "Unable to instantiate application" crash reports in the Android Developer Console and they all show the app is installed to the SD card. There is no way to catch this and tell the user to re-install. What also bothers me is that users think that the problem is with the app, they report it using the crash reporter , and then understandably expect us to fix it. What they don't know is that we can't fix it but worse, we have no way of telling them and that they should re-install the app. Android should really do a complete check of the apk when a Force Close occurs. On Dec 3, 12:52 am, Brian Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > Then why would a few of my users get versions that are corrupted and > downloading again solves the problem? > > On 12/02/2011 02:26 PM, strazzere wrote: > > > > > > > > > Unsure what your problem actually is, but I can assure you that the > > Market does actually do this. > > > Upon download request the give the Market an sha of the application -- > > once done download it will check this. If this succeeds it will pass > > the apk on to the package manager, which will then verify the > > signature of the apk also :) > > > Tim > > > On Dec 2, 1:05 pm, Brian Conrad<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Apparently the Market app does NO error checking for downloads. Once > >> again I had a user complaining my app wasn't working correctly. I > >> suggested he uninstall/reinstall and as a last resort he did so and that > >> solved the problem. Apparently though the app was corrupted during > >> download it still ran. I had another case where the custom font wasn't > >> displaying and the uninstall/reinstall solved that for the user. How > >> many of you are wasting time chasing down bugs which are really nothing > >> more than a corrupted download? Seems to me when a user downloads they > >> could first send the MD5sum then after the download see if it matches > >> before installation. -- 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.
