How often should mobile apps be updated? To help answer this question, we analyzed the Top 100 Free, Paid, and Grossing apps (as of August 8th, 2019) and their version update history. When we sliced the data by app category and looked at the top 10 apps in each, we found meaningful differences between the categories.…
It’s a challenge for every mobile team to get their app noticed in the middle of the 2.46 million apps on the Google Play store and 1.96 million apps on the App Store. It is an equally huge challenge to retain your users after they do download your app. Qualitest reports that 88% of app…
Crashes are a universally negative experience for users. Unlike bugs, crashes completely end the user session and a study shows that 80% of users will only attempt to use a problematic app three times or less before uninstalling. When your app crashes, you’ll want to have a crash reporting tool in place to send you…
User feedback is the lifeblood of app iterations. Imagine releasing your app without any internal or external feedback about how it was received. There would be no way to know if your app needs critical bug fixes, if new features are failing, or if any improvements are needed. This post will go over the relationship…
Innovations like 5G and AI are transforming the world of mobile app testing. However, while those technologies have yet to reach mass adoption, software performance engineering is becoming the norm. For mobile teams big and small, it’s important to know the differences between performance engineering and performance testing. In this article, we will take a…
Testing is often found to be one of the biggest bottlenecks when it comes to the software development life cycle, and with the constant pressure for speed and coverage in QA, automated testing is often used to complement manual testing. There are inherent strengths and weaknesses in manual and automated testing that cannot be overlooked. In…
Becoming a successful app in either app store is a huge challenge. Android users are now able to choose between 2.46 million apps, while Apple users enjoy the second-largest catalog at almost 1.96 million available apps. Simply getting noticed is a critical problem, and app store optimization (ASO) aims to solve it. Our research into…
Retaining users has always been the challenge of any app. Getting them through the door is one thing but keeping them is another. Localytics reports that 71% of all app users churn within 90 days. One reason why users might abandon an app is lack of understanding about how to use it and get the most…
So you’ve built a Cordova app and you’re ready to release it out into the world — congratulations! This guide will show you how to deploy your Cordova app on the App Store and Google Play. How to release your Cordova app for iOS Prerequisites Have a Cordova project with an iOS app Make…
When an app crashes, a crash report highlighting 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 report of the running environment, the different threads’ states, the steps to reproduce the…
When an app crashes, a crash report highlighting 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 report of the running environment, the different threads’ states, the steps to reproduce the…
Why you need solid crash reports At one point or another, all mobile app users have been affected by a frozen frame followed by a crash soon after. Apps crash at an average rate of less than 2%, but still, they greatly affect user experience. A study on user expectations of mobile apps found that…