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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Today, I’ll walk you through building a simple mobile application’s UI completely in code without the use of Storyboards or NIBs. I will not go into the debate of which is better because, simply, they all have their pros and cons, so I’ll just leave this link here which dives more into that matter: https://www.toptal.com/ios/ios-user-interfaces-storyboards-vs-nibs-vs-custom-code. …
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…