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,…
Welcome to part two of Creating UIViews Programmatically Using PureLayout. In the first part, we built a simple mobile application’s UI completely in code without the use of Storyboards or NIBs. In this tutorial, we will cover some of the most used UI elements in all applications: UINavigationController/Bar UITableView Self-sizing UITableViewCell UINavigationController Explained In an…
You’re working on a new feature and suddenly an old feature stops working even though you wrote unit tests. Or you’re refactoring legacy code and you think it’s done, but suddenly you find a lot of bugs. So you go back, you make the fixes, and you think it’s done, but then you find more…
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…
By Blake Sirach For many companies, software releases are stressful, nail-biting, teeth-gritting stretches of time when the whole enterprise is looking at your team and just waiting for something to go sideways: a major bug on an untested Android device, poor customer response, or unmet stakeholder expectations. But they don’t have to be that way!…
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…
When TestFlight hit the market in 2011, it revolutionized beta app distribution. It eliminated the hassle associated with distributing and managing beta builds and simplified the process on the tester’s side. Apple was quick to recognize the value TestFlight adds to developers and was quick to acquire the service and integrate it into App Store…
At Instabug we build an SDK for mobile apps. Building an SDK often means that most tools created for automating tasks around development and deployment of iOS apps don’t work for us, so we usually need to develop our own bespoke solutions. To increase our productivity and keep thing moving fast, we like to automate…
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…
iOS app beta testing is a critical stage in the application development lifecycle. It helps maintain your mobile app quality and improve its user experience, among many other things. Below, we take you through all the basics of beta testing your iOS app in order to help you prepare for this phase. From what beta…