Skritter: Write Chinese Beta Released!

Credential management isn’t working the way most iOS apps should work with the password keychain.

So, there are two minor issues with the Apple Keychain management on this app:
1). Passwords being blanked out
2). Keychain entries not being mapped to the app.

Details:

The first time I launched the Beta, it didn’t recognize this as able to use the “Skritter” entry from my saved passwords…that’s fine for the first launch.

So, I went into my keychain, instead of entering my Skritter credentials manually, and selected the Skritter keychain item.

The keychain then auto filled both the username and password correctly.

But when I hit the button to log in, Skritter “blanked out” the password even though the Keychain had added both a username and password and gave me an error saying that I needed to input a password.

I then did it again, but this time clicked on the password entry box after the Keychain. Skritter again blanked it out, but I used the Keychain manager to put the password in while in the password box.

This time it worked and logged me in ok.

I then logged out of Skritter Beta, and shut it down.

I then went back into the Beta, and expected Skritter Beta to now be recognized by the Keychain…no such luck…it didn’t auto suggest that this password should be used from the Keychain (most other apps autorecognize this).

And again, when I tried to auto fill the credentials by selecting the Keychain entry manually, it did the same “blank out the password after the Keychain manager filled it in”.

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