I will not try to to be too rude ranting about all the bugs that AirDroid has that haven't been fixed for months, but I will put this very simply: my patience is thinning and I am this close to uninstalling the client.
Of all the background programs that I am running on my computer, the buggiest is by far AirDroid (next is Skype). Here is everything that annoys me about the client that most other programs handle fairly well:
Using Windows 7 x64.
Thanks for reading.
Of all the background programs that I am running on my computer, the buggiest is by far AirDroid (next is Skype). Here is everything that annoys me about the client that most other programs handle fairly well:
- Reconnect on hibernate. After hibernating a couple of times, AirDroid just gives up reconnecting and just gets stuck on "reconnecting" despite clicking the button to reconnect.
- Opening the window. Why is it that the menu buttons appear before the window?
- Massive resource hogging, probably huge leaks in the program.
- Empty form in the background that appears in the alt+tab menu. Supposedly "fixed" but I guess it came back. I think this empty form is just to check for updates.
- Stealing focus from the user at completely random times.
- When uploading a screenshot for a bug report, if I put a web link in the filename, AirDroid crashes. Other programs will just let Explorer download the file to a temporary folder and then set the file path to the temporary folder.
- AirDroid updater does not use visual styles.
- Force-killing AirDroid sometimes does not remove the process itself. Even Process Hacker's Terminator locks up trying to kill AirDroid.
- On resolution change or anything like that, AirDroid draws its menu window's shadow on the desktop permanently, but not the actual window. Probably a consequence of overriding a lot of properties to give the AirDroid window a special look and feel.
- When the notification bar slides into view, the animation is somewhat choppy.
- File and text transfers to a device always fail on the Windows client but not on the web client.
Using Windows 7 x64.
Thanks for reading.