Friday, September 7, 2012

EyeEm iPhone App Version 3.0 - Playing around while the app's camera is on, good idea?


EyeEm iPhone App (verson 3.0)

Description:

Here’s a weird one.  No one would probably ever encounter this problem in regular use of the EyeEm iPhone app.  But, I found it interesting enough to write down.

It’s a bit difficult to describe, so please take a look at the attached screenshots.

Following the steps described here, I’ve gotten the EyeEm iPhone app to crash several times.  Even if it doesn’t crash, if you follow the steps described, you’ll see some strange behavior.

Basically, while taking a picture, you’ll see two icons to the left and to the right of the snap a picture button.

If you press these two buttons simultaneously (which is, of course, the first thing any end user would do) you’re able to get the “Swipe to change Borders” pop-up to appear overlaid over the camera roll photo selection menu.

Then after the misplaced “Swipe to change Borders” pop-up fades away, if you select a picture from the camera roll, the app will frequently grind to crawl.

If it doesn’t crash, and if the app recovers, you are taken to your selected picture.  But, the “blank” – “richard” – “bround” – “classy”, etc., icons will appear as gray boxes.

Weird, huh?

Repro Steps:

1.     Signed into a created account, launch the EyeEm iPhone app (version 3.0)
2.     Select the photo icon in the bottom middle of the screen
3.     With the camera activated, press the square and the double square (to the right and to the left) of the camera icon at the same time
4.     Either select a photo from the camera roll or cancel out
5.     If the app doesn’t crash, notice that the icons for altering the photos have turned into grey boxes

Result:  Wacky behavior when the user presses the squares to the left and to the right of the camera icon at the same time, while the app is in camera mode

Expected:  I don’t know

While the camera mode of the app is activate, press the two buttons that are circled.

Occasionally, you'll see this.

No matter what, you'll end up here, and the images for the filter are gone!

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