Showing posts with label Trover iPhone app. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trover iPhone app. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Trover iPhone App - Facebook error message is confusing.

Trover iPhone App (version 1.4.5)

I've been playing around with Trover with my iPhone set on "Airplane" mode.

Found an interesting little bug, that I am going to guess is easy to fix.

The Facebook error message if you fail to invite from Facebook displays as:

"The operation couldn't be completed.  (com.facebook.sdk error 2.)"

Repro Steps:

1.  Set the iPhone to Airplane mode - launch the Trover iPhone application
2.  From the Trover side bar, select "Invite Friends"
3.  Select "Invite via Facebook"
4.  Cancel out of Facebook's "No Internet Connection" screen
5.  Upon the automatic relaunch of the Trover app, user is presented with an non-informative error message

Result:  Trover's Facebook error to connect message displays the term: "(com.facebook.sdk error 2.)"

Expected:  That Trover's Facebook error to connect message will be amended to something more informative for the user, like "There was a problem communication with Facebook, please try again later"

Launch the Trover iPhone app while the iPhone's in airplane mode.

Select "Invite Friends".


Select "Invite via Facebook"


Cancel out of Facebook's "No Internet Connection" screen.  Once you cancel out, the Trover iPhone app will relaunch.

Confusing error message.

Monday, July 30, 2012

Trover iPhone app, easy and odd way to get camera pop-up partially off screen!

Trover iPhone App (version 1.4.1)

This is an extremely minor bug with the Trover iPhone app that I had to write down.  I couldn't help myself.

If you haven't downloaded the Trover iPhone app yet, you should.  I've been using it for nearly a year now, and I quite enjoy it.

Anyways, here's an extremely minor bug.  It be quicker to just take a look at the attached screenshots, but what follows is a description of how I can get it to reproduce.  This bug is a "kick yourself" kind of bug, which are my absolute favorites.

Here's how it works:

If you're already created an account, you land on a Trover home screen when you launch the app.

On this home screen, there's a plus in the upper right hand corner of the screen, and 3 lines in the upper left hand corner of the screen.  If you press these two buttons simultaneously (which is, of course, the first thing every end user would do) you can very easily bring up the "Take with camera/Choose from library" menu option in a caddywompus way!

The "Take with camera/Choose from library" option will actually appear nearly entirely off the screen, which is not something i've seen very often in an iPhone app!  And yes, i've been doing stuff like this for years!

Anyhooter, here's some brief repro steps, but in order to see what i'm talking about, just take a look at the attached screenshots.

Repro Steps:

1.  Download Trover and have an active, logged in account
2.  Launch the Trover iPhone app (version 1.4.1)
3.  Use two fingers, and press the plus symbol and 3 lines symbol in unison (takes practice, but once you get in the groove, it's 100 percent)

Result:  Pressing the plus symbol and the 3 lines symbol on the Trover home page results in the "Take with camera/Choose from library" option being partially off screen

Expected:  That pressing the plus symbol and the 3 lines symbol in unions will not result in the camera pop-up option being partially off screen

Launch the Trover iPhone app, take two fingers, and press those two buttons at the top.

Very easy to get the camera choice pop-up to appear partially off screen.