Mobile app design is a crucial phase during development and a mobile app’s UI can make or break the application. Delivering a great user experience should be your number one priority as a mobile app developer as it has a powerful and direct impact on your user engagement, conversion rates, and consequently revenues. There are…
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React, letting you compose a rich mobile UI from declarative components. With React Native, you don’t build a “mobile web app”, an “HTML5 app”, or a “hybrid app”. You build a real mobile app that’s indistinguishable from an app…
It’s 2021 and the mobile app market is still growing vastly. And with it, there is a continuously growing need for better testing methods. A study by Kobiton showed that companies are willing to invest more and more in mobile app testing. 79% said that they will spend more on mobile app testing next year…
Continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and continuous deployment have drastically changed the mobile software development cycle, especially with the different continuous integration tools developers now use to ship their apps. As software development cycles are becoming faster, time to deploy apps and delivery cycles are becoming shorter and shorter. Instead of companies shipping new app…
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…
Whether you are just starting out or you’re a seasoned Android developer already, you know how difficult it is to perform seemingly simple tasks. Thankfully, many have been there before you and created Android libraries and frameworks to help you develop with ease. I asked our Android team what they thought were the essential Android…
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,…
Back in April 2020 (which feels like 20 years ago now), everyone was rightly focused on the pandemic going on, and it completely dominated the news cycle. Something that seemingly slipped a bit through the cracks was Google’s decision to follow Apple’s lead and tackle shady app subscriptions on the Google Play Store. This very…
If you’re serious about your app’s success, then integrating an in-app user feedback tool to collect bug reports and communicate with your beta testers is a no-brainer. The beta testing stage can either be the worst and messiest part of finally shipping your project, or you can automate and optimize it. After all, you didn’t…
Note: This post was originally published on Aug. 6, 2014, and was updated on Dec. 16, 2020, to reflect new features in the Instabug SDK for Android. Alright, so hopefully by now, you’ve had a chance to integrate the Instabug SDK for Android into your application and have received your first bug, crash, and feedback…
In today’s global world, mobile app localization has become a must. When implemented well, it has helped some apps improve their app store ranking, increase downloads by up to 200%, and enhance revenue by almost 30%. Now that mobile app developers and project managers are becoming more aware of these facts, the need for a…
Bug reporting is a vital part of any mobile app development process and yet it is still a confusing process that many developers spend a lot of time, money and energy trying to perfect and yet can easily be managed by following some mobile app bug reporting best practices. We’ve gathered below some mobile app…