Hey shibes,

In an effort to make the experience for new users smoother I have just pushed a new update to the Android wallet to Google Play.

Release notes:

Massive rebase from the latest upstream release! This adds all the improvements from these releases plus a few more specific to Dogecoin:

• Updated to latest libdohj
• Fixed calculation of fees. No more stuck transactions because of low fees!
• Much more aggressive peer selection logic. This should somewhat help with the syncing at time of this release. The Dogecoin network has been a bit overwhelmed with the influx of new users. Work to improve this is being done as we speak. This isn't really a problem with this app, so bear with it ;)
• Updated checkpoints to massively reduce the amount of syncing for new and recently created and restore wallets.

A bit of background

I have seen a lot of issue reports with the wallet, a majority being problems with syncing. The problem with that is not the app itself but the fact that the Dogecoin network is under quite some pressure from all the new users. There are only a limited amount of full nodes providing the data these light wallets need. If you want to help the network you can run a full Dogecoin Core node and allow incoming connections. For the initial sync of Dogecoin Core it is heavily suggested to use a bootstrap. You can find detailed instructions in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/l8b7d4/dogecoin_blockchain/

Thanks everyone and stay awesome!