Podbird UI hangs for 10-20 seconds after opening

[James Lewis]

When podbird is first opened the UI is unresponsive for 10-20 seconds.... Cannot scroll, select any menus or play.

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

Its not only when the app is launched, but also when un-suspended. Its always the Whats New screen that has the problem but maybe thats just because its the default view.

[James Lewis (james-fsck)]

I think it is because it's refreshing the feeds or something... obviously this is getting worse the more podcasts are added, and on mobile networks.

Now I have added all my podcasts, on mobile data it can freeze for nearly a minute at startup... clearly this needs to be a background thread!

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Thanks for taking the time to report the bug. It is indeed the refreshing of the feeds (done on every app start) that is causing the issue as it blocks the UI thread. The proper way to fix it would be to implement a c++ backend that does the processing in a background thread. Its been on our todo list for some time. We have been focusing at the moment on push notifications support :) and will get to this issue when possible. We're experimenting on some ways to relive the issue temporarily by automatically refreshing the feed only once per day.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Bug 1449249 for tracking the c++ backend implementation.

[Hans-Georg Hauser (hansg-hauser)]

It really stops me from using Podbird.. Please fix it.. This App is just to cool to be hindered by this..

[kristbaum (kristbaum)]

For me, it crashes the whole appeared sometimes, but it is very inconsistent. When I disable networks usually I can open the appeared and use it, but otherwise in 8 out of 10 cases (with my network turned on) the UI hangs after 3 seconds of openning th appeared, and cannot recover. Please mark this as critical, I have noticed this on my Nexus 4 and two Bq phones.