[Bug]: Upload icon vanishes at times even when there are uploads pending to complete

[sivaraam]

Summary

The upload queue icon that we now have with latest app revamp seems to vanish at times even though there are uploading pending to be completed. It makes it difficult to manage the ongoing uploads.

If we couldn't figure out what's causing this, I suppose we could at least do a stopgap solution and just show the upload queue icon all the time to avoid confusion.

Steps to reproduce

1. Initiate some uploads in the app (I initiated the upload by sharing the image to the app)
2. Complete the details necessary for the upload.
3. Go to the Contributions screen of the app.

Expected behaviour

The upload queue should always be visible making it easy to manage ongoing uploads.

Actual behaviour

The upload queue icon flickers and is sometimes not visible making it difficult to access the queue and manage ongoing uploads.

Device name

OnePlus Nord

Android version

Android 12

Commons app version

main

Device logs

No response

Screen-shots

• Screen record showing the icon flcikering
• Screen record showing the icon only appearing after an app reopen

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None

[nicolas-raoul]

I just tried an upload of 8 pictures, then 10. Strangely for me the icon is always correctly present during the whole upload. Even when restarting the app in the middle...

[bxy379987]

@nicolas-raoul sir, can you assign this issue to me, I and my friend are ANU students, and our teacher tell us that we need to find issue to solve in this repo, we think this issue is not too hard and will try our best to solve this

[nicolas-raoul]

@bxy379987 Are you able to reproduce the issue? If yes, let us know and you can have it. Thanks! :-)

[bxy379987]

I face some problems when gradle build, I will try to reproduce, if I success I will tell you

[bxy379987]

@nicolas-raoul

Sir I have uploaded a picture to this common app, when i uploaded it, I found that as the issue said, the Contributions screen of this app had no upload icon, i don't know if my upload progress is working, but after about 10 sec, it shows that my picture is successfully uploaded.

[nicolas-raoul]

Did you see the upload icon at least a little bit? At the left of the the bell icon.
Would you mind posting a screencast showing the issue reproduction?
Thanks a lot!

[bxy379987]

Yes i see,

and I found that when the upload icon on the contribution interface does not display, you can simply switch to another interface, like nearby, and then switch back to contribution to make the icon reappear, without needing to restart the app.

[bxy379987]

But I don't have a clue how to fix this bug now.,I think the problem should be in the upload package.,But his code seems to be automatically injected.,So there's no inexplicable situation where the component becomes invisible.,Can you give me some suggestions.,How should I modify it and so on.

[nicolas-raoul]

I would suggest inserting logging and breakpoints at the methods that hide and show the icon.
Then see when it gets unduly hidden, and find out why.
Thanks! :-)

[bxy379987]

got it，thank you！

[bxy379987]

@nicolas-raoul sir I found that when upload single picture the upload icon works well，and i have found the related code and add some log.


I saw from your video that the upload icon issue occurred when uploading multiple images. Is there any way to transfermultiple images to the app? Currently, I can only take and upload photos one by one, and after each photo is uploaded, I can't test the upload function again, which is very inefficient.
Since I don't have an Android phone, is there a way to transfer images from my computer to this virtual Android phone?

[nicolas-raoul]

I believe you can take several pictures with the emulator's camera, then select them all in Android's stock gallery app, then share them to the Commons app.