At one point or another, all mobile app users have been affected by a frozen frame followed by a crash soon after. Apps crash at an average rate of less than 2%, but still, they greatly affect user experience. A study on user expectations of mobile apps found that 80% of users will uninstall an…
This guest post is written by John Sundell, host of the Swift by Sundell podcast. There are a lot of things to like about SwiftUI. Its declarative API makes it possible to build many common types of iOS views with very little code, its powerful state management system ensures that our UIs stay in…
In this post, we will take a look at two of the top mobile app quality platforms out there, Instabug vs AppDynamics. These tools can help you monitor your app’s performance and crashes, as well as errors, network requests, battery consumption, and more. Instabug vs AppDynamics for mobile app performance monitoring and crash reporting:…
In this post, we will take a look at two of the top mobile app quality platforms out there, Instabug vs Sentry. These tools can help you monitor your app’s performance and crashes, as well as errors, network requests, battery consumption, and more. Instabug vs Sentry for crash reporting: the similarities The worst-case scenario…
Most mobile apps nowadays provide a service in one form or another. Disruption of this service is considered a worst-case scenario for both users and providers. Nowadays any amount of disruption to huge apps and services like Facebook, Google, or Instagram results in breaking news articles. Not only does the actual downtime result in a…
Users are paying more attention to how your app is performing. Simply put, higher app quality outperforms low app quality. And the best way to go about improving your app’s performance and general quality is through application performance monitoring. Dedicated tools allow you to easily identify performance issues such as slow screen transitions, crashes, or…
Deprioritizing mobile app performance is no longer a luxury companies and mobile teams can afford. With a huge variety of apps available, functionality is no longer the only key metric users look to when downloading an app. Despite this, according to a study by PacketZoom, 70% of the users are still experiencing performance issues and…
Mobile apps have become an integral part of our daily lives and have now become an incredibly lucrative and productive market. However, this very quick pace of mobile app development would not be possible without a quickly evolving set of mobile app development tools to help them along the way. Today, we will take a…
Note: This post was originally published on Aug. 6, 2014, and was updated on Dec. 16, 2020, 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…
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…
Today, we’re releasing Instabug App Performance Monitoring (APM), a new tool that empowers mobile teams to track and optimize their app’s speed, stability, and scalability. Why we built it Poor app performance directly affects users’ satisfaction and experience, and this negatively impacts key business metrics like downloads, usage, retention, and revenue. Over the years…