Dots on the Kindle Fire: Returning to app from Twitter login screen leaves your stranded on a "Loading..." message.

Date: 09/07/2013

Dots on the Kindle Fire

Description:

I’ve found a very, very minor bug with the Dots app on the Kindle Fire.

If you haven’t downloaded Dots, you should. It’s a lot of fun.

Here’s the bug in simple terms: if you try to return to the Dots app from the Amazon Silk browser’s rendering of the twitter log in screen, you’ll get stuck on a screen that says “Loading….”.

You can exit out of this screen by using the back button, but you can’t make the loading message go away by tapping the screen. It was slightly confusing to me.

This is easier to show than it is to describe, so if you’re interested, take a look at the screenshots below.

Please Note: Doing the exact same steps with the Facebook Connect option gives the user an informative error message that is dismissible.

Steps:

1. Launch the Dots app on the Kindle Fire

2. Enter into a game

3. From the “TIMED MODE” results screen, select the “Connect Twitter” option

4. From “Authorize PlayDots to use your account?” twitter login, return to the Dots app using the back arrow at the bottom of the screen

5. Press anywhere on the screen while “Loading…” is on screen.

Result: Exiting from the Twitter login screen back into the Dots app using the back arrow results in the user being stranded on a screen that continually says “Loading….”

Expected: Exiting from the Twitter login screen back into the Dots app on Kindle Fire shouldn’t result in the user being stranded on a screen that says “Loading…”

Repo Rate: 5/5