I mentioned in an earlier post that the Friends list was responsible for a considerable slowdown in Spark’s performance. Today, I discovered that this is a characteristic of the XBox Live website – it requires cookie re-validation every 15 minutes or so, and occurs even on regular desktop browsers; probably to keep applications such as OpenSpark from hammering the servers.
In any case, the delay has been reduced from around 25 seconds to anywhere between 6 to 11. Because this has been a pretty significant thorn in my side for a while now, there will likely be an intermediate release of OpenSpark, based on version 1.1, but with this particular bug squashed. Look for a new release some time in the next two weeks.
I’m still looking for some help from those of you who are getting false authentication errors, and can swing Android SDK.
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