myfab5 iPhone app: Easy way to crash the app via the "Tips" screen

Date: 09/12/2013

Myfab5 iPhone app: Version 1.0

Description:

No user is likely to ever run into this, but I have found an easy way to crash the iPhone app.

This is much easier to show than to describe, so if you’re interested, please just skip down to the attached screenshots.

Here are the basics of the crash:

From the detail page of most places, you have the ability to “See more” of the tips left for that particular place.  On this “Tips” screen, there is a cross in the upper right hand corner of the screen.  If you press the cross button and the “Venue” button at the same time, the “Leave a comment” tip creation pop-up is drag onto the previous screen.  At this point (with the tip creation pop-up overlaid over the incorrect screen) the app will crash if you attempt to leave a tip or cancel out the pop-up.

That’s a mouthful, so please just see the attached screenshots.

Steps to reproduce:

1.     Already having an active account, launch the myfab5 iPhone app

2.     Go to the detail page of a popular place

3.     From the detail page of a popular place, scroll down and select “See More”

4.     From the “Tips” screen, press the add/cross icon (in upper right) and the “Venue” option in upper left at the same time

5.     Attempt to either “Submit” or cancel out of the “Leave a comment” pop-up

Result:  There’s an easy way to crash the myfab5 iPhone app if you drag a “Leave a comment” pop-up onto a venue screen

Expected:  App shouldn’t crash, no matter how odd and convoluted the steps are that cause the crash

Select any place...

Select the "See More" option...

Press the add and the "Venue" options at the same time...

The "Leave a comment" option is overlaid on the previous venue screen.  No matter what, the app will now crash.