Blog for Mobile App Developers, Testers and App Owners

This blog is from Finotes Team. Finotes is a lightweight mobile APM and bug detection tool for iOS and Android apps.

In this blog we talk about iOS and Android app development technologies, languages and frameworks like Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, Dart and Flutter that are used to build mobile apps. Read articles from Finotes team about good programming and software engineering practices, testing and QA practices, performance issues and bugs, concepts and techniques.

Building Offline-Capable Android Apps with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

How to build an offline-capable Android app using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

Robin Alex Panicker

Aug 3, 20244 min read

Monitor & Improve Performance of your Mobile App

Detect memory leaks, abnormal memory usages, crashes, API / Network call issues, frame rate issues, ANR, App Hangs, Exceptions and Errors, and much more.

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Optimizing Network Calls in Kotlin Android Apps using Retrofit

How to optimizing Network Calls in Kotlin Android Apps using Retrofit.

Jun 2, 20233 min read

Handling network calls efficiently in iOS using URLSession and Alamofire in Swift

Techniques and best practices for handling network calls efficiently in iOS using URSession and Alamofire in Swift.

May 19, 20233 min read

Performance testing of iOS Apps

iOS app performance testing is the process of testing an application's performance and behavior on iOS devices.

Mar 31, 20233 min read

Why Mobile App Testers and Developers Should Use APM Tools for Performance Monitoring.

APM tools are designed to help mobile app testers and developers detect and diagnose performance issues and bugs in their apps.

Jan 24, 20232 min read

Our customer Showreel, the video based professional networking app, and its Super Star founder.

Showreel is a professional networking app based on video content. They use Finotes for detecting and reporting bugs and performance issues.

Aug 31, 20222 min read

Finotes v6.0.0 with frame rate tracking, App Hangs and Analytics is now public

Finotes 6.0.0 comes with ability to detect slow frames, frozen frames, ANR & App Hangs. Also includes bug analytics

Don Peter

Aug 3, 20222 min read

Detecting ANRs and HTTP(s) call failures in Flutter based Android apps.

Finotes plugin, which is currently in beta, captures ANR and HTTP issues from flutter apps in Android platform

Don Peter

Jun 26, 20224 min read

Product architecture failure - Story of how I made one, and looked stupid.

Having a proper architecture for software products is very important, as otherwise the outcome will be undesirable.

Don Peter

Jul 6, 20212 min read

Finotes V4.1.0 for Android, iOS and watchOS is now available.

Full control of data points reported along with bugs, low memory usage and size footprint, error capturing in iOS with zero coding.

Don Peter

Jun 1, 20211 min read

Finotes watchOS framework version 4.0.0 released. It is a step closer to no code integration.

Finotes framework 4.0.0 for watchOS comes with Zero-code HTTP tracking and life cycle event tracking.

Don Peter

Apr 16, 20212 min read

Finotes Android SDK (Kotlin and Java) version 3.3.0 released

Finotes SDK version 3.3.0 for Java and Kotlin are now publicly available with improved ANR reporting, more data points for HTTP issues.

Don Peter

Mar 21, 20211 min read

Finotes Framework for iOS moves a step closer to no-code

Finotes Framework 3.3.0 comes with no code HTTP(s) tracking and auto capture of UIViewController lifecycle events.

Don Peter

Mar 17, 20211 min read

Monitoring HTTP requests in Android apps

Failures in HTTP calls are critical as it affects the functioning of the mobile app, which may lead to users uninstalling the app.

Don Peter

Jan 31, 20213 min read

How to detect and report bugs in Android apps

Manual bug detection and data collection during testing and development environment is time consuming and in production it is impossible.

Don Peter

Sep 24, 20204 min read

What are the common bugs in iOS apps

API bugs contribute 45% of all bugs in iOS, followed by crashes at 25%. Memory leaks contribute 10%. Frame skips came next at 5%.

Don Peter

Jun 4, 20201 min read

What are the common bugs in Android apps?

Crashes contributed 33.3% of all bugs reported, followed by API bugs at 29.2%. Memory leaks are at 16.7%. Delayed screen loading is at 12.5%

Don Peter

May 30, 20201 min read