983455 - Installs are slow on Android (with the APK factory)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 960584

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, defect, P4)

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

There is a perceptible lag  between clicking the install button and the actual install on Android. Andy tells me it will be fixed with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=958745. Filing this bug just to note the symptom of slowness.

Comment 1

[Chuck Harmston [:chuck]]

Krupa, did the closing of bug 958745 help with this?

Comment 2

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

(In reply to Chuck Harmston [:chuck] from comment #1)
> Krupa, did the closing of bug 958745 help with this?

Things are still slow for packaged apps.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

(In reply to krupa raj[:krupa] from comment #2)
> (In reply to Chuck Harmston [:chuck] from comment #1)
> > Krupa, did the closing of bug 958745 help with this?
> 
> Things are still slow for packaged apps.

Hmm, the key difference between hosted and packaged apps is APK size, which is always small for hosted apps but can be large for packaged apps (which bundle the app package into the APK).  And Fennec doesn't currently tell the user that it's downloading an APK after they press the Install button.  So there can be a perceptible lag between the Install press and the native "confirm install" dialog due to the time it takes to download a large APK.

Thus I think the remaining problem is a symptom of bug 960584, which is about notifying the user about the progress of the download, so they're aware of it.  And I'm going to dupe this to that.  But please reopen it if the problem continues to occur after that bug is fixed!