I have a new update to Orbot coming soon (with arrase's contributions!)
that addresses some long standing issues with Polipo stability.
Otherwise, yeah, waiting a little bit for all the processes to spin up
is not a bad idea.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017, at 12:42 PM, arrase wrote:
> Polipo is the orbot built-in proxy and looks like the prefered option
> choose if you call StrongOkHttpClientBuilder + forMaxSecurity
> 
> I do an ugly fix, if OrbotHelper calls onStarting orbot was off and i
> wait
> 2 seconds for polipo, if orbot was running onStarting is not called.
> 
> 2017-01-22 18:31 GMT+01:00 Mark Murphy <[email protected]>:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2017, at 12:21, arrase wrote:
> > > i can not find a place at orbot code where the
> > > app waits for Polipo before broadcast the state
> >
> > I do not know what Polipo is, sorry.
> >
> > If Orbot is sending STATUS_OK without being ready to accept connections,
> > then either I misunderstood what STATUS_ON means, or Orbot has a bug.
> > With luck, somebody more familiar with Orbot's implementation can
> > comment. I generally treat Orbot as a black box.
> >
> > While we should get this problem fixed, to some extent, you need to
> > handle this sort of problem anyway. For example, the server you are
> > trying to reach may be unavailable, in which case I would expect that
> > you will get an IOException of some form. Or, the device may not have a
> > working Internet connection, in which case I would also expect an
> > IOException. So, you will need some form of retry policy (e.g., try X
> > times, with exponential backoff, before giving up and raising a
> > Notification to the user about the problem).
> >
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