In part one of this post, we explored some important optimization strategies to help you improve your app’s stability and performance. This post will take it further and focus on optimizing the performance of your UI to deliver a smooth, premium app experience. UI hangs UI hangs occur when your app’s UI becomes…
As mobile apps continue to play an increasingly integral role in our daily lives, user expectations have kept pace. Today, it’s not enough for your app to provide a useful feature; your users also expect it to do so quickly and without errors, while consuming minimal battery life. To develop a high-quality Android app, it’s…
Customize the grouping of handled errors for easier debugging With SDK version 11.1.0 for iOS and Android, you can control the way handled errors and exceptions are grouped using a custom grouping string that you can add from the SDK. Instabug will then create a hash of the grouping string and use it as…
When we talk about Android app performance, the term “performance” can mean just about anything, but you hear it all the time. Anything and everything can be related to performance. In this specific case, let’s about technical application performance monitoring. This is still a broad term when it comes to performance monitoring — should you…
The Google Play store is the biggest source Android users go to for downloading apps, and having your app featured prominently on it ensures more downloads. This guide will show you how to submit and release your app on the Google Play store. Prerequisites Have an app! Your app will need a unique Bundle…
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…
Android 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 Android app in order to help you prepare for this phase. From what beta…
When it comes to your app’s user experience, nothing is more disruptive and frustrating to your users than app crashes. In fact, crashes are so disruptive that 53% of users uninstall apps that crash, and 80% of users will give a problematic app less than three tries before uninstalling it. But developers are already aware…
Filter out the noise and stay on top of issues that are relevant to your team The new conditions added to our rules engine for iOS and Android allow you to perform actions — such as forwarding and assigning crashes — based on the path (iOS), package (Android), and/or filename the crash originated from.…
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…
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…
Welcome to the second post of our App Hacks series. In the last post, we explained how to get your iOS app featured on the Apple App Store. Now, it’s the green robot’s turn — let’s talk about how to get that Android app of yours featured. When it comes to distribution, your app competes with…