Please consider a more intuitive UI for flipping pieces.

Great app otherwise. Thanks !!!

Hi, thanks for developing this interesting app. We recently tested this app by an automated Android GUI testing tool developed by our research team. We found the app could run into an "ActivityNotFoundException" error after executing the following actions:

start the app -> press menu -> click "help" item -> click the video

We tested this app on a Android phone with SDK 4.4.4, and tested both a previous old version and the newest version. In both cases, the app crashed under the above sequence.

Here is the log:

E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): Process: a3e.process, PID: 3703
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=vnd.youtube://3Q7ow07uaMw }
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1632)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1424)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:3553)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:3514)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:3756)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:3724)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at org.scoutant.blokish.Help$1.onClick(Help.java:19)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4444)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:18445)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5135)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:795)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:611)
E/AndroidRuntime( 3703): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

The suspicious code may be in Help.java:

Could you please take a look and confirm this bug? Thanks!
Ting Su

Hi! Nice game.. recently played blokus and was interested in the strategy!

One issue I notice is that flipping/reversing pieces is not possible (or if it is possible, I haven't figured out how to do it yet)
I would like to see that as one of the options which i feel i do all the time in the physical game..
One way to do it that I would approach from a user UI perspective is adding a mirror option along with the Cross and Check mark so that the piece is flipped..
Once I have some free time I would like to add it to the code myself, but if anyone else is able to get to it before, that would be great too!
Cheers..

Not sure if this is a bug or not. What should happen in the event of a draw?

I got 74 points, green got 74 points. The game said "Player Green wins with score: 74"

When you press on one of the tabs to show the remaining tiles of a player you can not only see his remaining tiles, you can also do moves with that players tiles.

From 0.5 to 2.2MB
Why?

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

Turning on Artificial Intelligence causes the AI to play the current turn if belonging to Green, Blue or Yellow.

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR

Player must play the current turn when if belonging to Green, Blue or Yellow after activating Artificial Intelligence for those colors.

HOW TO REPRODUCE

1. Launch Blokish 3.2 on Android 8.1.0
2. Start a New Game
3. Drag Right from Left Side of Screen
4. Tap Settings
5. Tap Artificial Intelligence to Toggle Off
6. Tap Back to Close Menu
7. Play a valid move for Red
8. Repeat Steps 2 & 3
9. Tap Artificial Intelligence to Toggle On
10. Tap Back to Close Menu

TESTING ENVIRONMENT

• Device: Pixel 2 XL
  
• OS: Android 8.1.0
  
• App Version: 3.2
  

RECORDING OF THE BUG

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

The user is able to drag an object from the left hand side of the object selection pane into the game board.

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR

Attempting to drag an object that is on the far left side of the selection pane results in the menu opening up, the selected object becoming misaligned in the pane, and the object selection pane no longer being possible to move left/right.

HOW TO REPRODUCE

1. Launch Blokish 3.2 on Android 8.1.0
2. Start a New Game
3. Drag the Object Selection pane to align a piece with left side of screen
4. Tap an Object that's against the left side of screen and drag right
5. Swipe Left to close menu that opened
6. Attempt to move left or right in Object Selection pane

TESTING ENVIRONMENT

• Device: Pixel 2 XL
  
• OS: Android 8.1.0
  
• App Version: 3.2
  

RECORDING OF THE BUG

I got the "Red has no more moves" dialog when I definitely had moves left.

There is a version 1.4 in Google's market, but the source here seems to be much older. Is there newer source elsewhere?

I've noticed that the game often ends with an AI player holding a 3-block "L" piece that they could have, but didn't, place.

I've attached screenshots of two games. Both screenshots were taken after the game ended. In both games, an AI player was holding an "L" piece they could have placed.

It's great that you can play vs 4 ais in solo or 4 player (or nasty duel) mode. But it would be nice to be able to play with 1, 2, 3, or 4 ai players). It would also be nice if there was the option to have a random player go first rsther than alsways the human, playing red.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

The user is able to rotate the 5-Block Vertical piece while placed in the upper left corner of the game board by using the lower circle.

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR

The user is unable to rotate the 5-Block Vertical piece while it is placed in the upper left corner of the game board due to either activate the Drag-Right Menu or moving the piece from its location.

HOW TO REPRODUCE

1. Launch Blokish 3.2 on Android 8.1.0
2. Start a New Game
3. Drag the 5-Block Vertical piece to upper left position
4. Attempt to Tap and Hold on Lower Circle and Drag to Rotate

TESTING ENVIRONMENT

• Device: Pixel 2 XL
  
• OS: Android 8.1.0
  
• App Version: 3.2
  

RECORDING OF THE BUG

Expected behavior

One would expect the app to restart and provide a new frame on which they can start a new game after exiting and relaunching the app.

Actual behavior

The app doesn't restart after exit, instead it is back to last state with all the moves and changes still intact upon relaunch. In other words, if a player had moved two blocks or any number of block, even after exiting the game and relaunching, those moves are still intact.

How to reproduce

• Launch Blokish
• Play the game for a while.
• Exit the game
• And then relaunch.

Testing Environment.

• Browser: Google Chrime
• Operating system: Android Version 7 (Nougat)
• App Version: Blokish v3.2

Recording Of The Bug

It looks like the new dependency, heyzaplib.jar, is proprietary software. Is that right?

Hi,

Thanks for writing this app, it's fun. I wanted to play multiplayer with a mix of humans and AIs (so, for instance, I could play with my wife and two computer players). It turns out it was pretty simple to make that happen - I have a fork at https://github.com/matt-gardner/blokish where it appears to be working (though there may be a bug or two at end game, because it currently only checks for redOver). I know this is a pretty old project - would you be interested in merging these changes, or should I maintain my own fork? If you are interested, I'll clean it up (fixing spacing, and some other issues) and submit a pull request.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

Blocks dragged onto the Game Board without their placement being committed to can always be moved.

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR

If two Blocks are dragged onto the Game Board with neither's placement being committed to, the first one to have been placed cannot be moved even when it is selected.

HOW TO REPRODUCE

1. Launch Blokish 3.2 on Android 8.1.0
2. Start a New Game
3. Drag an Object onto the Game Board
4. Drag a second Object onto the Game Board
5. Select the first object by tapping it
6. Attempt to drag the first object

TESTING ENVIRONMENT

• Device: Pixel 2 XL
  
• OS: Android 8.1.0
  
• App Version: 3.2
  

RECORDING OF THE BUG