Data gathering issue in offline mode

[jrtricafort]

One of our users is struggling with collecting field work data while using the Ushahidi mobile app in offline mode. Let's fill in more detail below:

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2. Select Login '...'
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5. Click the Login button
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• Device: [e.g. iPhone8]
• OS: [e.g. iOS11.4]
• Connection: [e.g. 3G, LTE, WIFI ]

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[jrtricafort]

Assigned to @Obadha2 so that he can repro the behavior and we can suggest a fix. However @Obadha2 doesn't have access to see the original Intercom message. @aoduor or @StaicyG can we summarize the issue here so that he can look, repro, and then we can suggest and investigate a fix from the developer side?

cc'ing @tuxpiper since he looked into this a bit last week. There appeared to be a related issue ( ushahidi/platform-mobile#97 ) but this original issue is still persisting. David, could you share your conclusions and writeup from intercom to this github issue?

[tuxpiper]

Pictures attached with their message:

they claim that they weren't able to sync posts after coming back online, but I wasn't able to verify.

I reproduced this by going offline and just trying to post after making sure that my GPS had fixated a position. For some reason, it looks like the app tries to draw the map... failing, of course. This is the only real bug I saw.

I reproduced this while I was offline and my GPS hadn't fixated a position. I think this is actually not buggy, just... not terribly helpful.

Maybe a message encouraging the user to get a GPS fix and try again would be helpful, because at least they would get pre-filled coordinates.

I guess my main confusion as a user here would be: if I fill something both in the Street,City,Country fields and the numeric coordinate fields.. which input will prevail?

[jrtricafort]

Thanks @tuxpiper . Do you know if this is a recent regression or has it always been like this? I'm interested why it popped up twice recently and if something changed?

[jrtricafort]

Also, @StaicyG or @tuxpiper -- what's the expected behavior versus actual behavior? It isn't immediately clear to me the difference in David's screenshots.

[tuxpiper]

Thanks @tuxpiper . Do you know if this is a recent regression or has it always been like this? I'm interested why it popped up twice recently and if something changed?

First time I come across it, but I haven't been done extensive testing of the mobile app...

Also, @StaicyG or @tuxpiper -- what's the expected behavior versus actual behavior? It isn't immediately clear to me the difference in David's screenshots.

To me, only the second screenshot shows a hard bug, and it is that the app shouldn't try to draw the map when offline. I think the intended behavior would be to get something like the third screenshot, just with pre-filled coordinates.

The problem with the third screenshot may just be that it confuses users, and that's something I'm not so good at poking at :)