Thread blocking sometimes while unzipping png files - java

I am developing an android app that requires downloading a zip file (around 1,5 MB max) with a small amount of logos (png files of 20-30KB average size) from a webserver.
I have encapsulated the process of downloading and unzipping the files into android internal storage in an AsyncTask's doInbackground() method.
The issue I have is that the unZipIntoInternalStorage() method I have developed (pasted down), sometimes runs forever. Usually it takes around 900ms seconds to unzip and save the logos into internal storage, but for some unknown reason around 1 of 4 executions blocks during the loop (and stays there "for ever" taking more than 2 or 3 mins to decompress all png files):
while ((count = zipInputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(buffer, 0, count);
}
Edited: After doing some logging and debugging I found out that the line slowing down so much the execution is : zipInputStream.read(buffer) inside the while condition. Any ideas why sometimes it runs extremely fast and some others extremely slow?
Here is my complete method to unzip the downloaded files and save them into android internal storage. I also add the method where the zipInputStream is initialized, from the zip file downloaded (both methods executed inside doInBackground() ):
private void unZipIntoInternalStorage(ZipInputStream zipInputStream) {
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Unzipping started ");
try {
File iconsDir = context.getDir("icons", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
ZipEntry zipEntry;
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int count;
FileOutputStream outputStream;
while ((zipEntry = zipInputStream.getNextEntry()) != null) {
File icon = new File(iconsDir, zipEntry.getName());
outputStream = new FileOutputStream(icon);
while ((count = zipInputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(buffer, 0, count);
}
zipInputStream.closeEntry();
outputStream.close();
}
zipInputStream.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e(LOG_TAG + " Decompress", "unzip error ", e);
e.printStackTrace();
}
Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Unzipping completed time required: " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - start) + " ms");
}
private ZipInputStream httpDownloadIconsZip(String zipUrl) {
URLConnection urlConnection;
try {
URL finalUrl = new URL(zipUrl);
urlConnection = finalUrl.openConnection();
return new ZipInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e(LOG_TAG, Log.getStackTraceString(e));
return null;
}
}
To clarify, after testing this method several times and debugging, the blocking for ever always happens in the nested while loop I described previously. But I can't find the reason (see edited clarification)
Also I have already tried this method using BufferedOutputStream class and with the same results: nested while loop running forever sometimes and others unzipping successfully in less than a second.
Hope I have been as clear as possible, since I have spent long hours looking for posible causes to the issue in several post regarding unzipping files or java I/O methods with no success.
Any help appreciated. Thanks

I would suspect the InputStream rather than the output to be the issue.
Try :
return new ZipInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream()));
You can add an argument for setting buffer size, but default settings should be fine for your use case.
The problem is typically caused by small packet size, leading to one read forcing several IO operations.
Ideally, you do want to use also a BufferedOutputStream, since the read could read much less than 1kB, but you still do pay a full I/O for each write.
As a general rule, remember I/O is 100 times slower than anything else you could do, and often leads to the scheduler putting your task on Wait. So just use BufferedStream anywhere the stream is not in memory (i.e. always except for StringBufferXXXStream basically).
In your case, due to zip protocol, your read could lead to any number of smaller reads on the actual network socket, as Zip parses and interprets headers and contents of the compressed file.

I know this error. If your zip file has been damaged, when you try to unzip it by ZipInputStream, it will be a infinite loop, because the file has no EOF.
But if your unzip it by ZipFile, you can catch that Exception!
public static boolean unZipByFilePath(String fileName, String unZipDir) {
long startUnZipTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
try {
File f = new File(unZipDir);
if (!f.exists()) {
f.mkdirs();
}
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BufferedInputStream is = null;
ZipEntry entry;
ZipFile zipfile = new ZipFile(fileName);
Enumeration e = zipfile.entries();
while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
entry = (ZipEntry) e.nextElement();
is = new BufferedInputStream(zipfile.getInputStream(entry));
int count = 0;
byte data[] = new byte[BUFFER];
String destFilePath = unZipDir + "/" + entry.getName();
File desFile = new File(destFilePath);
if (entry.isDirectory()) {
desFile.mkdirs();
} else if (!desFile.exists()) {
desFile.getParentFile().mkdirs();
desFile.createNewFile();
}
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(destFilePath);
dest = new BufferedOutputStream(fos, BUFFER);
while ((count = is.read(data, 0, BUFFER)) != -1) {
dest.write(data, 0, count);
}
dest.flush();
dest.close();
is.close();
}
zipfile.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e(TAG, "unZipByFilePath failed : " + e.getMessage());
return false;
}
return true;
}

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I appreciate if you do not suggest me to increase the heap memory instead show me the fundamental error of this method... thanks...
Thanks
It's unnecessary to allocate the entire file size in memory by declaring a byte array of the entire size. Building the concatenated file in memory in general is totally unnecessary.
Just open up an outputstream for your target file, and then for each file that you are combining to make it, just read each one as an input stream and write the bytes to outputstream, closing each one as you finish. Then when you're done with them all, close the output file. Total memory use will be a few thousand bytes for the buffer.
Also, don't do I/O operations in finally block (except closing and stuff).
Here is a rough example you can play with.
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The implementation flaw is that you are creating a byte array (fileContents) whose size is the total file size. If the total file size is too big, that will cause an OOME. Inevitably.
Solution - don't do that! Instead "stream" the file by reading from the "chunk" files and writing to the final file using a modest sized buffer.
There are other problems with your code too. For instance, it could leak file descriptors because you are not ensure that inStream is closed under all circumstances. Read up on the "try-with-resources" construct.

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