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Releasing Quirk & Developing for Health

Evan on December 28, 2018

Several months ago, I was using a mental health app that asked me for a $200 in app purchase. No one pays $200 dollars for a dark mode....

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Thomas Werner • Dec 28 '18

Hi Evan! I just gave Quirk a try on an iPhone 6s Plus and I noticed a few UI and usability bugs that only happen when started for the very first time right after installation:

The cognitive distortion selector cannot be scrolled after tapping / swiping outside that box
Tapping "save" does not give any feedback. It appears broken, so I tapped multiple times not realizing that I'm creating multiple records in the list view on the right
The list view with recorded entries cannot be scrolled
Entries cannot be deleted. The trashcan button is missing
There are overall styling issues (missing highlight color, missing icons)

All these problems disappear when I kill the app process (double tap home, swipe up) and start the app again. It is unfortunately 100% reproducible for me when I delete and reinstall the app, so I guess it wasn't just a fluke :-/

I'm on iOS 12.1.2

Evan • Dec 29 '18 • Edited

Oh woah that is really weird. It sounds like you have older version of Quirk. I wonder if the wrong one is being sent out via the promocodes.

Does your app have "headers" with the dates in the list?

If you can take a screenshot, let me know!

Thomas Werner • Dec 29 '18

I actually purchased it from the App Store :-)

Here are a couple screen shots:

Broken State

After App Restart

Evan • Dec 29 '18

Woahhhhh that's very strange. The first broken state is the very first (and very buggy) first version I ever shipped to test flight. The last is the current version.

Let me try shipping a new version and we'll see if that fixes things. Thanks so much for bringing this up.

Thomas Werner • Dec 29 '18

Yeah, that's really strange! I wonder if it's a build process glitch (e.g. old build artifacts that got bundled with release build?) or some really weird issue on Apple's end? :-/

It would be great if you could write something about that glitch if you figure out the cause or hear back from Apple. I also wanted to write a React Native app for App Store release soon, so I guess I might also run into it :-)

Evan • Dec 29 '18

I have a suspicion it's somehow related to expo/react-native. I cleaned the local cache and deleted all previous versions before uploading. Hopefully this should fix it 😬