Sunday, January 14, 2024

TetherFi Is Stubborn

Some devices run into a weird unexplained problem when trying to launch the TetherFi hotspot - the Broadcast starts up fine but the Proxy hits a random unexplainable "Invalid argument" error and fails to start.

According to the internet and the ktor source code in examples, the proper way to handle this, is to not handle it, ignore it, and try again. So okay, fine. TetherFi now has support for an optional mode called "Stubborn Proxy" which, when it sees this "Invalid Argument" error, will ignore it and simply try again. If it fails to start 10 times in a row, then we consider it truly a problem and stop, but for devices which just have single time random failures, this change should allow them to launch the proxy.

Various bugfixes in bound for the first release of 2024, version 40! It will enter Alpha on the store in a few days time and hopefully hit a wide public release sometime later this week.

Stay tuned!

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