android: Serious issue of inconsistent content by deploying apk

From @ryc16 on October 18, 2016 9:28

Tell us about the problem

I recently started to build a debug apk for easy of deploying various devices for testing (which also similar production deployment) but I encountered very strange behavior. Apk got deployed but content sometimes show updated and sometimes not. Also same apk deploy to 2 devices but one shows correctly but another devices shown incorrectly. This could be easy to tell looking at UI already. The problem happen randomly so very painful. I wish more people try this way and see if more people got the same problem.

Steps: #1. build apk by “tns build android”. #2. copy the xxx_debug.apk from platforms\android\build\outputs\apk to my share place. #3. I installed the apk to 2 devices. note: both devices had early version installed.

From app info, both devices got the same, in term of content, they look different see the attachment for 2 devices.

Device1: content not updated look like old UI. hw.zip

Device2: content did updated show correctly note2.zip

On device 1, Also try clean cache, clean data on the device, uninstall package from device package manager, then install apk from my share place. Still had same problem - correct app version but incorrect content.

Any idea? How can I further troubleshoot? How could I know what content I am running on?

I am a bit worry what happen if this is on production environment, Would user will face this problem? If so, user wouldn’t know about it. So this is very critical issue.

Which platform(s) does your issue occur on?

Only tried on Android not IOS

Please provide the following version numbers that your issue occurs with:

>tns info
All NativeScript components versions information
┌──────────────────┬─────────────────┬────────────────┬───────────────┐
│ Component        │ Current version │ Latest version │ Information   │
│ nativescript     │ 2.3.0           │ 2.3.0          │ Up to date    │
│ tns-core-modules │ 2.3.0           │ 2.3.0          │ Up to date    │
│ tns-android      │ 2.3.0           │ 2.3.0          │ Up to date    │
│ tns-ios          │                 │ 2.3.0          │ Not installed │
└──────────────────┴─────────────────┴────────────────┴───────────────┘

Copied from original issue: NativeScript/NativeScript#2918