One of the most effective ways to catch and keep new users for your app is through localization. In order to give your users an experience that feels as comfortable and native as possible, we’ve made it possible to release localized mobile app support surveys in multiple languages at once. This is a win-win situation…
While we’re big fans of CircleCI and use it for continuous integration for both our iOS and Android SDKs, but as our team grows, our needs have changed. As a result, we decided to set up our own CI infrastructure. In this post, I’ll walk you through what motivated us to do it and the…
Your favorite bug reporting tool is now a platform for Real-Time Contextual Insights throughout the entire mobile app lifecycle. Seven years ago, we launched Instabug as a demo video — a cool idea that went viral within developer circles like Hacker News. That’s how my co-founder Moataz and I knew that it was worth turning…
Introducing Network Logs and Private Views for React Native Apps Recently, we released Version 8.2.6 of our React Native SDK, which contains two of the most frequently requested features from our users. Network Logs Instabug can automatically log all network requests performed by your React Native app. Requests details, along with their responses,…
New classes, properties, and APIs to give you more control In order to give you more control over the Instabug products you use, new classes and properties have been introduced and various APIs have been moved, renamed, and deprecated. These changes affect users of all Instabug products across all OS platforms, so please update to…
Since the introduction of Swift in 2014 and over five major releases, it has matured a lot. The tooling is better and many teams have either completely switched to Swift and away from Objective-C, or are mixing between both with all new code being written in Swift. Swift leverages programming patterns and language features that…
From day one, we were determined to always keep the integration of the Instabug SDK a breeze. And we’ve been able to achieve this successfully by keeping it at just two lines of code that you add to your app in less than 60 seconds. We’ve also been adding lots of customizations based on your feedback…
Note: This post was originally published on Aug. 6, 2014 and was updated on Oct. 21, 2018 to reflect new features in the Instabug SDK for Android. Alright, so hopefully by now, you’ve had a chance to integrate the Instabug SDK for Android into your application and have received your first bug, crash, and feedback…
Alright, so hopefully by now, you’ve had a chance to integrate the Instabug SDK for iOS into your application and have received your first bug, crash, and feedback report. If you still haven’t, you can read here to learn how. For this post, I want to explain some of the features available with the SDK and how…
Note: This post contains outdated product information. For the most current details, see SDK V8.1. More intuitive, more organized, and easier to use APIs To make the APIs more intuitive and easily reachable for you, we renamed some of them, removed the deprecated ones, and restructured them into different classes. These changes apply…
Should you use Interface Builder and storyboards or write all your UI in code? This topic has been debated A LOT. There are good arguments on both sides, and every team’s and project’s needs are different. I’m not trying to convince you why one approach is better than the other, but rather share why we…
Over the past year, the Instabug BugSquad has grown rapidly. With a 200% increase in team size, we had to think hard about how to scale an engineering company without added bureaucracy and with improved productivity. In the end, this meant we had to refactor our code base. As with all complex engineering endeavors, things…