DownloadManager sends STATUS_SUCCESSFUL for failed download

Question

Okay, I\'m downloading files (images). I want to send a message with local URI for the image when the download is completed. But 20% of time I\'m getting this:

Answer 1

DownloadManager is buggy and doesn't work correctly. This bug was filed with Google a while back:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18462

For single file download, you could workaround this by specifying a unique directory to download to specifically for this purpose, and just take whatever you get in that directory upon DownloadManager.STATUS_SUCCESSFUL.
For multi-file downloads, I can't think of a workaround at the moment, unless you have the ability to rename files at the source.