Android Play download race condition?
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/09
I submitted the report below to Google. What do you think, race condition?
I think this is a race condition somewhere.
Steps to reproduce:
1- Play notifies you there are multiple Apps (preferably many) that need manually updating
2- Manually select the first app and start the download for it
3- While the app is downloading, and there are more apps to update, perform step 2 for the remaining apps
4- Every some apps, there will be an app in the list that stalls before the percentage counter becomes visible (usually it displays “Downloading” forever)This problem does not reproduce if:
A- there is only one app to download
B- if (while other apps are downloading) you do not select a fresh app to updateIt does not matter if this is over WiFi, or mobile data connection. Soft/Hard rebooting the device does not help either, nor the version of the Play app (it has been this case for at least a couple of months, I only found time now to investigate the full matrix of reproducible steps, and factors influencing reproducability).
Time consuming workaround: cancel the stuck download, and retry, then continue with the list of other apps.
–jeroen
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