On what authority can you say the market checks after download? Did you
work on the Android Market app or did you disassemble it?
I might also entertain that after downloaded and checked that something
happens during actual install. And then there may be problems with the
particular implementation of the OS on the user's device. After all, on
my phone when it was running 1.5 something as basic the text fields in
the date widget didn't work. After the upgrade to 2.1 they did.
And I'm certainly not going to spend a lot of time on it if the
uninstall/reinstall solves the problem as it apparently does for other
developers. The apps don't do anything really exotic anyway. Most of
the other bugs with my apps have been due to the bug between the user's
ears. ;-)
(I'm sure other developers get plenty of those too).
- Brian
On 12/03/2011 01:38 PM, strazzere wrote:
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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