Memory Leaks

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.

Solving Frame Rate Issues and App Hangs in SwiftUI iOS Apps

Robin Alex Panicker

6 days ago
5 min

Solving Frame Rate Issues and App Hangs in SwiftUI iOS Apps

Common causes of frame rate issues and app hangs in SwiftUI iOS apps, and how to fix them.

Best Practices to Avoid Memory Leaks in Flutter

Robin Alex Panicker

Sep 23
3 min

Best Practices to Avoid Memory Leaks in Flutter

Some best practices to help you avoid memory leaks in your Flutter applications.

How to Avoid Memory Leaks in Jetpack Compose

Robin Alex Panicker

Sep 13
3 min

How to Avoid Memory Leaks in Jetpack Compose

What are the common reasons for memory leaks in Jetpack Compose and how to fix them.

Building Memory Efficient iOS Apps Using Swift: Best Practices and Techniques

Robin Alex Panicker

Jun 12
3 min

Building Memory Efficient iOS Apps Using Swift: Best Practices and Techniques

Best practices and techniques for building memory-efficient iOS apps using Swift.

Memory leaks can occur in android app. Here are some scenarios, and how to fix them.

Robin Alex Panicker

May 20
3 min

Memory leaks can occur in android app. Here are some scenarios, and how to fix them.

About various ways memory leaks can occur in Android apps to better understand how to detect and prevent them.

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.

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

Robin Alex Panicker

Aug 31, 2022
2 min

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.

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

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

Don Peter

Jun 1, 2021
1 min

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.

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%

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