Force Close
We have received a number of complaints that Share Your Board force closes starting from update ’1.0 RC3 r3′. In order to investigate this problem we have introduced a feature which allows Share Your Board to collect the diagnostics and send us a problem report if something has gone wrong. The program also asks user if he wants to send the information and allows one to review what is actually sent, so do not worry: the feature is not going to affect your privacy.
Once the feature was added we started to receive problem diagnostics explaining the ‘force closing’. To make the long story short:
- At some point we have used a built-in Android Market feature which locks downloaded application to the phone (copy-protection).
- It was shown that this feature does not protect the app enough (e.g: here), so Google found no better solution then ban Android Developer Phones from downloading the copy-protected apps.
- We remove the copy protection since we value every user and we do want developers to be able to use Share Your Board. Also we were asked by a few developers if we can help them getting the app.
- It turns out that changing the copy-protection state breaks the forward compatibility and there is no workaround for this issue now.
Unfortunately we can not do much about that issue except for proposing the following work-around:
- Open Settings on your Android phone
- Go to Applications
- Go to Manage applications
- Find Share Your Board in the list and click on it
- Click Uninstall
- Go to Android Market, find Share Your Board and install the newest version
Let us know if after applying these steps you are still experiencing problems.
