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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.

Using Method Channels to enable calls between native code and Flutter code

Robin Alex Panicker

19 hours ago
4 min

Using Method Channels to enable calls between native code and Flutter code

How to utilize Method Channels to invoke native code in both Android and iOS platforms from Flutter app.

Robin Alex Panicker

Jun 3
2 min

Building Memory Efficient Flutter Apps

Some strategies and techniques to write memory efficient code in Flutter apps.

How to optmize Kotlin Android Apps for CPU Performance

Robin Alex Panicker

May 23
3 min

How to optmize Kotlin Android Apps for CPU Performance

Techniques and best practices to optimize Kotlin Android apps for CPU performance.

Building memory efficient android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

Robin Alex Panicker

May 14
5 min

Building memory efficient android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

Building memory efficient Android apps using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose requires good coding practices and use of leak detection tools.

Robin Alex Panicker

Mar 31
3 min

Performance testing of iOS Apps

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

Finotes Flutter plugin is now public with Android and iOS support

Don Peter

Feb 9
3 min

Finotes Flutter plugin is now public with Android and iOS support

Finotes Flutter plugin version 6.1.1 is now public and is available for integration.

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

Don Peter

Aug 3, 2022
2 min

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

State of bugs in mobile apps - Finotes report for year 2020

Robin Alex Panicker

Jan 30, 2021
2 min

State of bugs in mobile apps - Finotes report for year 2020

Statistics related bug reports from iOS and android apps for the year 2020

How to detect abnormal memory usage and memory spikes in iOS apps

Don Peter

Oct 5, 2020
3 min

How to detect abnormal memory usage and memory spikes in iOS apps

When iOS app consumes increasing amount of memory, it may lead to app crash. Finotes reports high memory usage with data to reproduce them.

How to detect and report bugs in Android apps

Don Peter

Sep 24, 2020
4 min

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.

How to Detect Memory Leaks in WatchOS apps that are created using Objective-C or Swift

Don Peter

Jun 19, 2020
2 min

How to Detect Memory Leaks in WatchOS apps that are created using Objective-C or Swift

Memory leak is a critical bug in watchOS apps, that often go unnoticed during development. Memory leaks can lead to EXC_BAD_ACCESS error.

Don Peter

Jun 4, 2020
1 min

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%.

What are the common bugs in Android apps?

Don Peter

May 30, 2020
1 min

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%

How to detect abnormal memory usage and memory spikes in Android Apps

Don Peter

May 24, 2020
3 min

How to detect abnormal memory usage and memory spikes in Android Apps

Finotes detects and reports abnormal memory usage and memory spikes. Of course it detects memory leaks as well.