Crashing iOS Apps Blamed on Flaw in Apple App Store - koehlertallean

Apple's App Store has a defect in its updating process that is causing some programs to crash when they're launched, according to a developer.

Marco Arment, the developer of Instapaper, noticed the problem Wednesday after being inundated by user complaints about his app crashing on launching aft users upgraded to its latest edition.

"This didn't add up — obviously, Apple had reviewed it, and information technology worked for them," he wrote in his web log. "My submitted file away from Xcode worked perfectly. But every time I downloaded the update from the App Store, clean operating room non, it crashed now."

After some inquiry, Arment discovered that the update Apple was pushing to his users was corrupt, he said. After qualification some noise to Apple through e-mail and the public on Twitter, atomic number 2 said the trouble was fixed and functioning updates of his political program began smooth to his customers.

Apple has not commented on the parenthetic.

Arment wasn't unequaled in his problem. Atomic number 2 identified more than 50 other apps with upgrades that exhibited buggy behavior, including Angry Birds Space HD Free and GoodReader.

In a content to its users, GoodReader attributed the App Store problem to damaged binaries caused aside changes Apple made to its app dispersion engine. It too celebrated that the problem was affecting double updates of its app. Some updates to versions 3.15.0 and 3.16.0 were affected by the bug, information technology said.

The grease one's palms binaries appeared to be occurring alone in downloads from the App Computer storage app resident on the iPad, and not from files downloaded from iTunes on a computer, GoodReader added.

Malus pumila appears to have set the problems with GoodReader. I undergo downloaded some the 3.15.0 and 3.16.0 updates to my first-multiplication iPad, and they are functioning unremarkably.

Needless to order, the glitch ruined the 4th of July holiday for some developers. "We are still acquiring those issues with our Scanner Pro," commented Denys Zhadanov, marketing manager for the company that makes the app, Readdle, of Odessa in the Ukraine. "Thanks Apple for ruining a big launch, since it was quite important update with iCloud synchronize."

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