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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Finotes v8.0.1 is now public

New in this release: 1. Tracks of Jetpack Compose elements. 2. Tracks App Startup delays. 3. Improved memory leak detection in Flutter.

Don Peter

Nov 14, 20232 min read

Best Practices to Avoid Memory Leaks in Flutter

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

Sep 23, 20233 min read

How to Avoid Memory Leaks in Jetpack Compose

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

Sep 13, 20233 min read

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

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

Jun 12, 20233 min read

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.

May 20, 20233 min read

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.

May 14, 20235 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

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.

Don Peter

Feb 9, 20233 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

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

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

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

Robin Alex Panicker

Jan 30, 20212 min read

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.

Don Peter

Oct 5, 20203 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

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 19, 20202 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