Google’s yearly conference, Google I/O, highlights new updates coming to the Google and Android ecosystems. In 2019, Google introduced several changes to the Google Play Store that give app owners more options when it comes to feature and app updates, store listings, and data. Dynamic app delivery Last year Google introduced App Bundles, which functioned…
As you iterate on your app and add features and code to it, the effort needed to test your app will increase. Eventually, you will reach a point where you need to find a more efficient process for creating, executing, and reporting on your test cases. Mobile test automation tools help you increase your testers’…
When it comes to building mobile apps, there’s a lot you can learn from one of the biggest players in the game. In the early 2000s, the introduction of web apps made large-scale user data easily available, so Google’s human-computer interaction researchers put their formidable brains together and created the Google HEART framework. They wanted…
This post was updated on 8/29/2019. Almost a year ago, we embarked on a journey to reimagine our visual identity as part of a broader rebrand process. In this post, I’ll talk about how our design team tackled this challenge. As designers, we love solving problems, and we spent many months working on this…
Your favorite bug reporting tool is now a platform for Real-Time Contextual Insights throughout the entire mobile app lifecycle. Seven years ago, we launched Instabug as a demo video — a cool idea that went viral within developer circles like Hacker News. That’s how my co-founder Moataz and I knew that it was worth turning…
Would you like to understand more about why your mobile app users do what they do? Or perhaps know which people are more likely to make purchases? Would it be helpful to be able to send surveys and collect thoughts and ideas from the users that matter most? Of course! Here’s where learning how to…
An easier way to manage your user conversations We analyzed our users’ chat workflows and found that most of you don’t like having to switch back and forth between two tabs to access user conversations. Last year, we redesigned the experience of managing user conversations starting with re-ordering the bugs list and adding chat…
A simpler experience for improved readability and masked views for user privacy In order to make our Repro Steps feature more useful for app developers and mobile product managers, as well as to give app users more control over their data, we’ve redesigned the Repro Steps experience in your dashboard as well as in…
Introducing Network Logs and Private Views for React Native Apps Recently, we released Version 8.2.6 of our React Native SDK, which contains two of the most frequently requested features from our users. Network Logs Instabug can automatically log all network requests performed by your React Native app. Requests details, along with their responses,…
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,…
Ever since its inception in the 1980s, the practice of dogfooding has been steadily gaining in popularity. Today, it is no longer an obscure strategy used only by the most progressive companies and we can find many examples of dogfooding across industries. Dogfooding is not a silver bullet and is certainly not a replacement for…
Surveys are most useful when elegantly deployed; having a working understanding of survey segmentation and targeting best practices will help you ask the right questions and get actionable answers. The best way to keep your product roadmap under control (and avoid playing guessing games) is by making informed, data-driven decisions about your customer needs and…