MetricKit was introduced last year with iOS 13, offering a relatively simple API to access a wide range of on-device power and performance metrics for your app. With the introduction of iOS 14, MetricKit added three new trackable metrics: CPU instructions, animation hitches, and exit reasons. Out of those three new metrics, the exit reasons…
While powerful on its own, Swift can always be improved with different libraries and frameworks. It usually starts with a developer finding difficulties or not being able to do a certain thing, and finds a creative solution to the problem that others can use. Whether you’re still starting out as an iOS developer or you’re…
With the global landscape changed permanently due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of changes are being made by every industry to adapt. Moving everything online is one of the biggest trends seen everywhere. Education and work (where possible) have all shifted to remote from the safety of people’s homes. Mobile development conferences in 2020…
Humans are a communal species, and the need for social networking has always been there. Most of us are stuck in self-isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which means there’s not a whole lot of socializing happening. This has led to a huge increase in the popularity of social networking apps that were very popular…
Working from home has been a growing trend in the past years. With desk jobs being the majority of the workforce, more and more companies are starting to realize that there isn’t a strong need to have everyone at the office. Unfortunately with the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe, working from home has become a…
Data privacy and the need for encryption has never been higher with more and more of our lives being on the internet. ISPs are constantly tracking your web habits and collecting metadata for the government. And some governments even restrict and censor anything from news media to games. VPN apps help you protect your data…
Crashes are a headache for all parties involved. Mobile teams hate dealing with them and users hate experiencing them. 62% of users uninstall an app if they experience a crash according to a study by DCI. App instability can quickly lead to failure or at least be very costly. To help minimize your app crashes…
Working out and being healthier puts you in a better state of body and mind. And with everyone stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we all need a way to tackle the stress and anxiety that comes with that and start getting that dopamine flowing. As a personal struggle of my own, I’ve…
Food delivery apps were always destined for success considering how everything is accessible right from our smartphones. You could be lying on your couch and without even having to call someone, you can get your favorite dish from your favorite restaurant delivered right to your doorstep. And with everyone quarantined due to the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Push notifications are essential when it comes to user engagement with your mobile app, and doing so in a noninvasive way can go a long way to making your app more successful. This tutorial will show you how to generate the certificate necessary to send push notifications through your iOS app. First, go to your…
When an app crashes, a crash report containing the app conditions leading up to the crash is generated. With Instabug’s crash reporting tool, you can have detailed crash reports sent to your dashboard instantly. Each Instabug crash report captures a detailed snapshot of the running environment, the different threads’ states, the steps to reproduce the crash,…
Catching unsatisfiable Auto Layout constraints won’t catch 100% of the times the UI breaks, but it can give us a good hint. Unsatisfiable Auto Layout constraints errors happen when there are two or more conflicting Auto Layout constraints installed in the app’s view hierarchy. When that happens, UIKit logs the conflicting constraints in the console,…