Severe Android Market Bug!!!
As you all know, I uploaded a new version of Musical to the Market tonight. I just checked my comments, and apparently my application Force Quits now when you open the Keyboard and Piano! I tried for about 30 minutes to replicate the problem myself, but could not get it to happen (and since the Market doesn’t let you buy your own application, I couldn’t see if it had to do with the Market).
I did a bit of Googling, and apparently the issue occurs when you change the Copy Protection status on the application. After reading how useless Android’s DRM was, I had decided to just disable with this update (particularily since it halves the size of the app too). From what I can tell in the Google Developer Group, when you update to an application with a different DRM status, all WebViews cause Force Quit errors! I can’t find any workaround and Google doesn’t appear to have even acknowledged the bug.
So, I have re-enabled DRM again on the application until I can find evidence that this issue is fixed, which will hopefully fix this problem.
All users who have updated OR bought the application between around 5pm and 11pm PST Sunday should uninstall and redownload Musical. I am told that this will fix the problem (I would do this even if you aren’t having the problem, becasue if you just bought it, you will have this problem the next time I update).
And that my friends, is how I learned my lesson about DRM. It’s a disaster.
I was going to uninstall, but I found out that I would have to rebuy the program… how do I get around that?
I’m 99.9% sure you can reinstall things for free after uninstalling them if you have bought them once. If something goes wrong, I can always issue a refund for the second purchase.