[BUG] App can enter infinite crash loop
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	• Niedzielski
	May 20 2016, 4:15 PM

Description

There a number of bugs that have triggered never ending crash-relaunch sequences. As a user, these are difficult to break out of and an extremely poor experience. Crash loops are possible because the app registers a crash handler extremely early in its lifecycle and if it crashes before UI can be shown it will likely loop forever. The app should abort restarts when a loop is detected.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Abort relaunch when a crash loop is detected	apps/android/wikipedia	master	+27 -2

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T136057: Weird German sessions before/since 2.1.141

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• Niedzielski created this task.May 20 2016, 4:15 PM

Restricted Application added subscribers: Zppix, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 20 2016, 4:15 PM

Change 289877 had a related patch set uploaded (by Niedzielski):
Abort relaunch when a crash loop is detected

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/289877

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 20 2016, 4:15 PM

• Mholloway subscribed.May 20 2016, 4:45 PM

• Niedzielski moved this task from To Do to Code Review on the Mobile-App-Android-Sprint-82-Lead board.May 20 2016, 5:21 PM

• Niedzielski set the point value for this task to 1.

Here also I think this probably isn't really a candidate for QA but rather for watching HockeyApp after it's released (but feel free to move to QA Signoff if you disagree).

Dbrant moved this task from Ready for Signoff to Done on the Mobile-App-Android-Sprint-82-Lead board.May 23 2016, 5:53 PM

Dbrant closed this task as Resolved.May 23 2016, 5:54 PM

Change 289877 merged by jenkins-bot:
Abort relaunch when a crash loop is detected