I don't know? But I can assure you the market check after download and
after install. Possibly something after that.

Is there any pattern in the bug reports? Same device, same rom, etc?

I'm sure _something_ is wrong, I'm not doubting you on that. Just
saying your gripe about the market not checking apks is probably not
right :)

Tim

On Dec 2, 3:52 pm, 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.

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