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Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

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Post by leberwurstsaft » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 9:49 AM UTC

Ugh, the need to delete the corrupt version and then install the good version also gets rid of all user data. What a mess.

Of course, this could be fixed by slightly increasing the version number or some other way to let iOS know that the good version is to be installed as an update over the broken one.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

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Post by megablast » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 10:36 AM UTC

gsibble wrote: post #33

dave1619 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had apps "In Review" for a couple days.

Months here.

It is worth emailing them if it takes longer than a few days. There is a process where after a couple of days, it should go into extended review, and they will email you.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

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Post by mbenjaminsmith » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 10:53 AM UTC

ricardobeat wrote: post #34

mbenjaminsmith wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen download corruption effecting apps from the Mac App Store.

This is a tough one, but I think that should be affecting .

It was a typo and I really think you should avoid correcting people's grammar on this forum. It doesn't add anything to the discussion.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

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Post by n9com » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 11:22 AM UTC

This is actually quite common and appears to resolve itself within a few hours after the update goes live on the app store.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

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Post by jordanclark » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 12:39 PM UTC

Something similar has happened to me. Apple needs to address this issue immediately.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

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Post by signalsignal » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 3:05 PM UTC

spaghetti wrote: post #37

bryanjclark wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just reject the binary -- better to wait a week for the update than to be in this situation.

My update has been "waiting for review" for a week. I'm going to just let it proceed. When the update goes live I'll test it and if it's corrupted I'll just remove it from sale. Hopefully this will prevent users from updating. Then I'll email support and wait until the issue is resolved.

Funnily enough, updates can still be received if an app is removed from sale or even deleted by the developer.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

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Post by bryanjclark » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 3:11 PM UTC

spaghetti wrote: post #37

bryanjclark wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just reject the binary -- better to wait a week for the update than to be in this situation.

My update has been "waiting for review" for a week. I'm going to just let it proceed. When the update goes live I'll test it and if it's corrupted I'll just remove it from sale. Hopefully this will prevent users from updating. Then I'll email support and wait until the issue is resolved.

Don't play games with this one. If I were in your shoes, I'd pull my binary, too.

You do not want to be waiting on the App Store Review team to fix this. I'm one of the developers in Marco's post; it's been 24 hours and all I've gotten is a boilerplate response from the App Review team.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

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Post by rkudeshi » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 3:16 PM UTC

pooriaazimi wrote: post #40

I noticed something even odder when I was updating Instapaper from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3 on my iPad 2, iOS 6 beta 2 yesterday: Instapaper is about 25 megabytes, and I'm on a desperately slow network. It should've ended in no less than 5 minutes, but it just took over 15 seconds. I'm certain that I'm on iOS 6 ( :D ), and I'm certain that I updated Instapaper (4.2.2 crashed on lunch in iOS 6, that's why he sent out 4.2.3 and…

Doesn't iOS 6 add delta updates for apps? Or was that still only for system updates?

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

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Post by mh- » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 7:07 PM UTC

mcav wrote: post #5

mmsear wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does someone at Apple manually check the whole app when you submit an update?

Yes, they have human reviewers launch the app and tap around a bit, in addition to automated code analysis.

that 'automated code analysis' also let a 'Flashlight' app that was, actually, a covert tethering app go live.

Re: Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch

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Post by pooriaazimi » Thu, Jul 05, 2012, 7:34 PM UTC

rkudeshi wrote: post #48

pooriaazimi wrote: post #40

I noticed something even odder when I was updating Instapaper from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3 on my iPad 2, iOS 6 beta 2 yesterday: Instapaper is about 25 megabytes, and I'm on a desperately slow network. It should've ended in no less than 5 minutes, but it just took over 15 seconds. I'm certain that I'm on iOS 6 ( :D ), and I'm certain that I updated Instapaper (4.2.2 crashed on lunch in iOS 6, that's why he sent out 4.2.3 and…

Doesn't iOS 6 add delta updates for apps? Or was that still only for system updates?

To best of my knowledge, it's still only for OS itself. Searching for 'delta' in devforums.apple.com and developer library doesn't seem to return anything relevant, and I've watched or at least skimmed through most WWDC sessions and it wasn't mentioned anywhere.

But I'm not an active iOS developer at the moment and might be mistaken, or haven't looked enough.