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

Robin Alex Panicker

Aug 3, 20244 min read

Building Offline-Capable Android Apps with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

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

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 v7.0.0 is now public with the capability to track SwiftUI views.

Don Peter

Jun 4, 20232 min read

Finotes v7.0.0 is now public with the capability to track SwiftUI views.

Finotes 7.0.0 is publicly available. Supports SwiftUI in iOS apps, and improves on the ANR reports in Android apps.

Apr 1, 20231 min read

Detecting and Fixing ANR in Android Apps - Explainer Video by Don Peter, CTO of Finotes

In this video, Don Peter shares valuable insights on detecting and fixing ANR issues in Android apps.

Finotes Flutter plugin is now public with Android and iOS support

Don Peter

Feb 9, 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.

Jan 24, 20232 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.

Finotes 6.1.0 comes with improved root cause detection of ANR, App Hang & Frozen Frames.

Don Peter

Nov 19, 20222 min read

Finotes 6.1.0 comes with improved root cause detection of ANR, App Hang & Frozen Frames.

Finotes 6.1.0 reports App Hangs with thread stack, ANR induced force closure of Android app and stack trace for frozen frames.

Sep 18, 20221 min read

Detecting ANR in Android apps using Firebase Crashlytics and Finotes.

In Firebase ANR will be reported only if the user chooses to 'Force Quit' and open the app. Finotes reports as and when ANR occurs.

Aug 31, 20222 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.

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

Don Peter

Aug 3, 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

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

Don Peter

Jun 26, 20224 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

Detecting and fixing ANR in Android Apps.

Don Peter

Oct 12, 20213 min read

Detecting and fixing ANR in Android Apps.

ANRs are UI/Main thread blocks that prevail for more than 5000 milliseconds. Let's see how to detect and fix them.

Finotes SDK version 4.0.0 for Android released

Don Peter

Apr 16, 20212 min read

Finotes SDK version 4.0.0 for Android released

Finotes SDK version 4.0.0 comes with improved screen load delay and ANR tracking.

Identifying root cause of ANR in android apps

Robin Alex Panicker

Mar 26, 20211 min read

Identifying root cause of ANR in android apps

ANR in Android apps is one of the most common issues. Finotes helps not just in detecting the ANR, but also in identifying the root cause.

Finotes Android SDK (Kotlin and Java) version 3.3.0 released

Don Peter

Mar 21, 20211 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.

How to detect and report bugs in Android apps

Don Peter

Sep 24, 20204 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.

How to detect and fix frame rate issues in iOS apps.

Don Peter

Sep 10, 20203 min read

How to detect and fix frame rate issues in iOS apps.

With basic integration, Finotes is capable of detecting frame rate issues in iOS apps.

How to detect and fix ANR issues in Android apps.

Don Peter

Jul 23, 20203 min read

How to detect and fix ANR issues in Android apps.

To avoid ANR in Android apps, processes that take more than 16 milli seconds should be executed through worker threads.