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. -- 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.
