State of Mobile Experience report from Embrace
Monday, July 31, 2023 by Richard Harris
Embrace released the State of Mobile Experience report detailing mobile end users' and builders' perspectives on performance issues and app experiences. The three-part study combines input from mobile engineers at industry-leading companies and app users and rich data from Embrace's mobile experience engineering platform. The insights reveal how ap...
Android devices fail twice as much as iOS devices says new report
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
Each quarter, mobile experts compare the features and performance of iOS and Android smartphones. In the third quarter of 2017, Apple’s iPhones came out victorious in the battle, with the Android device failure rate (30 percent) being nearly double that of the iOS device failure rate (16 percent), according to the Q3 2017 State of Mobile Device Performance and Health re...
Why your app is getting uninstalled and how to prevent it
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 by Simon Spaull
App developers have a tough job managing the marketing life cycle. Before an app is released, app developers must have plans for user acquisition and they must be agile enough to adapt in those first hectic weeks. But as you gain traction and grow comfortable with how your app is doing, there is a huge worry that looms over you: what if users stop using your app and uni...
Bugsee crash reporting platform gets all new integrations
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
Bugsee has announced new developer-friendly features including instant feedback, application health assessment, and new integrations with popular mobile development frameworks, bug trackers and collaboration tools. These enhancements underscore the company's mission to arm mobile app developers with the information needed to find and fix pesky bugs right at their finger...
Androids failing at double the rate of iPhones
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
As the two main players in the mobile space, the Android and iOS operating systems are at constant odds with one another for market share and performance. In the second quarter of 2017, Android devices struggled to keep pace with the performance of iPhones. In fact, Android devices had a failure rate worldwide of 25 percent - that is more than double the failure rate of...
Zendesk and Google Fabric partner
Thursday, April 20, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Customers today expect help when they hit a customer experience snag, even if that is the middle of their commute or when they’re standing in a coffee line. Gartner forecasts that this year, 35% of all customer support will take place on a mobile device, an increase of 300% over 2014. In response to this customer demand, Zendesk has launched the first customer...
AppDynamics Developer Toolkit release for Spring is here
Thursday, April 6, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
AppDynamics, a Cisco company and a application intelligence company, is planning on a Spring ‘17 release, including the AppDynamics Developer Toolkit and major updates to Enterprise iQ and Business iQ. The new releases are aimed at giving application teams better abilities to deliver impactful customer experiences.In our digital-first world, where quality and performanc...
Bugsee emerges from stealth to make finding bugs in mobile apps easier
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
New bug fixing tool allows app developers to spend more time improving functionality and user experience and less time logging, explaining and fixing buggy apps.Bugsee announced its corporate launch and the general availability of its bug reporting and crash analytics tool for mobile app developers. Bugsee is the only bug reporting solution that continuously captures vi...
Top 12 software and app development stories from 2016
Saturday, December 31, 2016 by Richard Harris
We are so excited to be entering into our 4th year at App Developer Magazine, and we have you - our loyal followers to thank. Without you none of this would be possible, so thank you for riding along shotgun :)I thought it would be interesting to take a quick look back at the top stories we covered in the app development or software development industry - that got the m...
How to prevent users from dumping your branded app
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 by Samir Addamine
We all know that the odds are stacked against branded apps. It has been established, for instance, that 90% of branded apps have fewer than 10,000 downloads. If you launch a new app today, you are one among 4 million or so.
With a 0.1% chance, the Chargers are more likely to win the Super Bowl.
Those odds are getting worse. The avera...
Extreme Networks to be Super Bowl LI's wifi analytics provider
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Extreme Networks, Inc. announced an agreement with the National Football League (NFL) to become the Official Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Analytics provider of Super Bowl LI. This announcement follows wired and wireless deployment at Super Bowl LI Stadium in Houston, Texas and marks the first time that Extreme has implemented its wired and wireless solution at a stadium hosting the ...
Stopping the crashes inside your app
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Hannah Levenson
If you are a mobile app developer (and we'll take a wild guess and say you probably are, or are at least linked to the industry in some way), then your apps have most likely been downloaded, used a bit – crashed – and then users deleted it.We can confidently say this is the norm for many apps because:Various market studies (like this one from Crittercism) ha...
Yahoo Mobile Developer Suite adds two new key ingredients
Thursday, October 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
Flurry Analytics has announced the availability of two advancements to the Yahoo Mobile Developer Suite, Crash Analytics 2.0 and Revenue Analytics.Crash Analytics provides developers information about application crashes, exceptions and errors log, all in real time. This functionality is vital for determining the root cause of any issues quickly, while keeping apps runn...
20 percent of mobile app crashes are correlated with a network issue report finds
Monday, October 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Apteligent just launched Custom Insights, a new feature that offers customer tools for mobile big data and data science. Apteligent used the feature internally to publish the first of many previously unknown findings in its latest industry report, “Network Crash Edition.” The report reveals interactions with cloud services cause a surprisingly high number of crashe...
Twitter's Crashlytics Now Catches out of Memory Crashes for iOS Apps
Thursday, August 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Twitter has announced a brand new feature in Fabric's Crashlytics kit — out of memory crash reporting on iOS (OOM). Crashlytics is already the most powerful crash reporting solution available. But app crashes aren't always caused by bugs in the code. Crashes can also be caused by the user's device being out of memory, forcing the app to shut down. This is a problem...
Apteligent and Twin Prime Wants to Help You Speed up Your Apps
Thursday, August 11, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Apteligent is working with Twin Prime to utilize its mobile app acceleration technology that provides the ability to provide a faster, more effective mobile experience. The Twin Prime platform offers capabilities to analyze network performance and establish alternate content delivery strategies to combat network latency, which is often a cause of app slowness and source...
Mobile App Greatness: It Matters
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Joe Schulz
Mobile user expectations are an interesting thing. We all hear that they are through the roof, and that users expect app behaviors and responses to occur in near-nanoseconds. What most of us don’t hear is that the features and functions that matter to users do not necessarily align with what developers are giving them - or what developers think they want.As a result, ev...
Apteligent Releases New SDK for App Crash and Latency Reporting
Monday, July 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Apteligent (formerly Crittercism) has released a new upgraded Standard Edition SDK which provides crash and latency reporting tools that allow mobile developers to troubleshoot, prioritize, and resolve issues that damage a users’ app experience. It provides analytics and metrics that provide detailed, real-time information to find and resolve crashes, freezes, and issue...
Integrating Customer Service in Mobile Apps
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Barry Coleman, CEO at UserCare, which provides customer service software specifically designed for mobile applications. Specifically, we were interested in learning about the value proposition for developers of integrating customer service in mobile apps.Prior to UserCare, Barry served as CTO and VP of Support and Customer Optimization Products ...
Web and Mobile Application Development Developers On Application Performance
Saturday, April 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Dimensional Research and AppDynamics recently partnered in a survey to capture trends and data about web and mobile application development as it relates to monitoring and analyzing tools, including the ability to capture data in real-time, measure performance and business impact.Anand Akela, Director of Product Marketing for Application Performance Management (APM) at ...
Mobile Application Usage Continues to Redefine Performance
Friday, October 2, 2015 by Joe Schulz
With both mobile device usage and user expectations continuing to escalate, application performance is becoming more important than ever. At the same time, the complexity of the devices themselves, paired with rising security precautions that are locking users out of public Wi-Fi networks, are making it more challenging for developers to ensure consistent performance un...
Microsoft Azure Team Releases Application Insights Windows SDK 1.0.0
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Microsoft Azure team has announced the release of Application Insights Windows SDK 1.0.0 which includes API changes to improve experiences and a number of stability and performance enhancing fixes.The SDKs provide a set of automatic telemetry capture out of the box. Getting started with Application Insights is as simple as integrating the SDK into an application and...
Mobile Experience Data Report from Crittercism Tells Us What Apps Crash the Most and More
Thursday, March 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Crittercism has a fresh data report showing what carriers around the world perform best and worst. France’s Bouygues ranks the best with an average latency of 250ms, while Germany’s E-Plus and Spain’s Movistar clock in at a dismal at 448ms and 431ms, respectively. The report also Android and iOS crashes rates, with Android apps generally crashing more. Th...
Don’t Let Your App Offer a DMV Like Experience
Wednesday, December 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
I’ve yet to meet anyone who looks forward to going to the DMV. I just renewed my driver’s license and could not do so online so I trudged down to the DMV office and did the DMV dance. You know the routine - sign in and wait, then talk to someone and wait - repeat that process until you finally reach your goal.I bring this up because I want to point out that, while I hav...
Parse Launches Mobile App Crash Reporting and Local Datastore for iOS
Monday, December 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Parse has recently introduced two new products: Crash Reporting for iOS and Android, and Local Datastore for iOS.Parse Crash Reporting provides the ability to register, track, and resolve crashes in apps. The Parse team notes that there are a number of third-party crash reporting tools available but say their crash reporting platform is a way to reduce the complex...
AppDynamics Offers Developers a Freemium Version Its Mobile App Behavioral Analytics Platform
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 by Richard Harris
AppDynamics is releasing a self-service freemium version of its Mobile Real-User Monitoring (RUM), a solution for collecting mobile application behavioral analytics and managing the 24/7 performance of mobile applications in real time. After 15 days free use of the full featured trial product, the mobile crash analytics capabilities remain free forever, with a data rete...
Apperian Offers Enterprise Developers New Pre Production Mobile App Testing Service
Thursday, August 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Apperian is offering a new solution to allow employees to contribute to testing pre-production business-to-employee (B2E) and business-to-consumer (B2C) mobile apps. This new offering leverages Apperian’s enterprise mobility platform and is specifically designed to help enterprises consistently deliver high quality mobile apps that users want to download, install a...
Optimizing your App Potential via Visual Mobile Analytics
Sunday, June 22, 2014 by Alon Even
The world of mobile apps you may think is old news, but in many ways it is just getting started. As you may already know, the app world is flooded with some great apps, a few mediocre ones and lots of bad ones. Traffic to ecommerce sites from mobile devices is rising steadily, recently with web traffic from mobile surpassing that originating from PCs for the first time....
Aternity Mobile APM for App Developers Now in GA: No cost, Tag free Mobile App Monitoring
Thursday, June 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Aternity, a provider of Workforce APM solutions that monitor any application on physical, virtual, and mobile devices, announced the general availability of its Mobile APM for App Developers last week.If you are building mobile apps or are responsible for mobile app performance, you can take advantage of this tag-free, SaaS offering to instrument mobile apps for diagnos...
Want To Make a High Quality App Avoid These Top 10 App Fails
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 by Martin Wrigley
As the app stores become more crowded than ever, making money from apps
is increasingly difficult for developers. In fact analyst house Gartner is
predicting that through
to 2018 less than 0.01% of consumer mobile apps will be
considered a financial success by their developers. Consumers are spending mere
seconds deciding on which app to download and reviews are ma...
iOS 7 Beta 6 Download Now Available From Apple Dev Center
Thursday, August 15, 2013 by Richard Harris
iOS 7 beta 6 has been released and is ready for downloading. At only 13 megs it's not a huge update, but Apple has let everyone be privy as to what has been changed for this release by with a complete change log, repeated below.
Notes and Known Issues
The following issues relate to using iOS SDK 7.0 to develop code.
Address Book
Notes
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