iOS 12 was announced in early June at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2018, and with it came a lot of changes, leaving developers everywhere wondering about how the new changes with the iOS 12 App Store would affect their apps. Apple’s App Store was launched ten years ago and currently has over two million…
Beta testing is a critical stage in the software development lifecycle. It helps refine your mobile app quality and improve its user experience, among many other things, which is why it’s crucial to integrate a third-party iOS beta testing tool for bug and crash reporting and to collect user feedback. Beta testing saves time, money,…
So you have a solution to a problem that many other iOS developers have and you want to help them, but you also want to protect your code and build a business? Binary framework, that’s what you want. You might have noticed that you can’t see the source code of the UIKit frameworks you use…
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…
iOS 11 was announced in early June at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2017, and with it came a lot of changes. There were design changes, app updates, new features introduced and more, but what’s more important for the developers to know are the new iOS 11 developers features. iOS 11 is arguably one of…
You’re launching your first app, or maybe it’s been a while since the last time. Submitting an app to the App Store isn’t as simple as pushing a launch button, but it’s not as complicated as it may seem either. This step-by-step post assumes that you are already enrolled in the Apple Developer Program, your…
Before we implemented our current View Hierarchy feature, we were only able to tell our users whether or not a defect existed in their UI, but we couldn’t show them where or why, and we couldn’t offer a solution. View Hierarchy’s 3D layers became the solution. With this feature, developers can see the UI…
Ever since I started developing for iOS, I have been working exclusively on mobile apps. I didn’t have any real experience shipping an SDK, other than HMSegmentedControl, which doesn’t really count as an SDK. I recently became a Product Owner at Instabug, where I also lead the iOS team. We build an SDK for bug…
Having answered the question of why we don’t use Swift at Instabug many times over the past few months while doing interviews (P.S. We’re hiring), I decided to write a blog post. Since Swift’s introduction in 2014, it has matured a lot. We no longer read the stories of how unstable the compiler is, or…
Welcome to our new App Hacks series. In this series we will cover tips build better apps, scale them up faster, and maintain success. Our first post in this series is about how to get your iOS app featured on the Apple App Store. When you finish developing your app or if you’re launching a new…
With countless people on Twitter tweeting iOS-related thoughts and links, it’s hard to know who actually shares meaningful content. Fill your Twitter feed with inspiring people who actually say things of value and engage with you in fruitful conversations. Here are some of the most awesome iOS Twitterati you should be following. Ray Wenderlich (@rwenderlich) Wenderlich…
Building mobile applications with web technologies greatly speeds up development, as well as the added benefit of shared code between platforms. Sometimes, however, you need capabilities that aren’t available in a web view, or maybe implementing will require too much work. That’s when you break away from your cross-platform heaven back to native development. Here…