WhosHere on the Kindle Fire crashes if you try to send a message to somebody.

Date: 07/16/2012

Android Version: 1.1

Description:

I’ve found a minor bug with the app WhosHere as it operates on the Kindle Fire.

Now, WhosHere is an app that’s built around video messaging and text messages, so it wasn’t exactly designed with the Kindle Fire in mind.

Still, it’s available to download on the Kindle Fire, and a user is given an option to create an account that can be migrated to other devices.

Anyways, i’ve found a crash that always occurs.  My guess is that this bug probably reproduces on other Android devices.  So, I’ll write down this minor bug, for history’s sake.

I actually downloaded and played with the iPhone version of WhosHere.  This is why I recognized the app, and decided to download it onto a Kindle Fire.

If you’re already bored of reading this, please just skip to the attached screenshots.

On the Kindle Fire, the WhosHere app will crash, if you send someone a message.  It's pretty simple.

Repro Steps:

1.     Download WhosHere on a Kindle Fire

2.     Launch WhosHere

3.     Select any person displayed under “Near”

4.     From any person’s display page, select the pencil and paper icon at the bottom of the app

5.     Type in an message and send it to a person

6.     Note that the app crashes into “The application WhosHere (process com.whoshere.whoshere) has stopped unexpectedly.  Please try again.”

Result:  On a Kindle Fire, the WhosHere app will crash if the user sends a message to any user

Expected:  The WhosHere app on a Kindle Fire won’t crash if the user attempts to send a message to another user

Repro Rate: 5/5

Download WhosHere on a Kindle Fire.  

As soon as you launch the app, you'll see a default group of people presented to you, under the heading "Near".  Select any person.

After selecting a person, you'll be sent to a page where you'll have the option to send people individual messages.  This option to send direct messages is represented by a pencil and paper icon that's visible at the bottom of the screen.  Select this option.

Send a person a message, from this keyboard pop-up on a Kindle Fire.

It will crash!

Not seeing the Twitter icon.

Twitter Kindle Fire app – Version 3.2.2

Date:  07/07/2012

Description:

Don’t know if this is just me or not, but not matter what I do, I don’t see the Twitter PNG image in the bookshelf section under apps.

I’ve downloaded, deleted, and re-downloaded the Twitter app for the Kindle Fire.

Every time I go the apps section on the Kindle Fire, I don’t see the twitter icon.

I just see a gray box.

If I add it to favorites, it’s also just a gray box.

Repro Steps:

1.     Download the Twitter Kindle Fire app

2.     Note that the icon for it (at least on my Kindle Fire) always appears as gray in color in the Kindle Fire app bookshelf

Result:  On my Kindle Fire, the Twitter icon appears as gray in color in the app bookshelf

Expected:  That on the Kindle Fire, the Twitter icon won’t appear as gray in color – I’m expecting the traditional twitter bird

Please see the attached screenshots.

I am not seeing the twitter icon on my Kindle Fire.  I see a gray box.  I've rebooted my Kindle Fire.  I've deleted and re-downloaded Twitter.  Still seeing a gray box.

If I add it to favorites, I see the gray box on the Kindle Fire home screen.

There's a guy named Rovert in Ping Pong Master

Title: Ping Pong Master

Version: 12.04.03

Date:  07/07/2012

Description:

I know, I know.  This isn’t a bug with the Kindle Fire, per se.  This is, instead, a hee-larious bug with an app that runs on the Kindle Fire.

I kept playing this delightful game called Ping Pong Master, on the Kindle Fire. 

This game is fun, and if you’ve got a Kindle Fire, I recommend it.

Each and every time I fired up this Ping Pong Master, I kept wondering to myself: “am I the only one who notices this?”

Your first computer opponent looks exactly like Waldo from “Where’s Waldo.”

Except, except….

He’s named “Robert” in a pre-game lobby.

Then his name changes, hilariously, to “Rovert” in game.

“Rovert”

See the attached screenshots.

Repro Steps:

1.     On a Kindle Fire, download the awesome ping pong title named “Ping Pong Master”

2.     Before the game starts, notice that your first opponent is named “Robert”

3.     Enter into gameplay, and notice that your opponent’s name changes to “Rovert”

Result:  There’s a character in “Ping Pong Master” whose name changes from “Robert” to “Rovert”

Try "Ping Pong Master."  You won't be disappointed.

Your first opponent...  A "where's waldo" looking homeboy named "Robert."  

His name switches to "Rovert" in-game!!!!!!!