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 34 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.

Explore Finotes

Don Peter

May 15, 20212 min read

Securing remote work

Some simple steps to secure remote work environment for software programmers.

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

Don Peter

Apr 16, 20212 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.

Finotes iOS Framework version 4.0.0 released

Don Peter

Apr 16, 20211 min read

Finotes iOS Framework version 4.0.0 released

Finotes framework 4.0.0 for iOS comes with added customization capabilities while tracking screen load delays.

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.

Google vs Oracle - Implications of Supreme Court verdict for Android app ecosystem

Robin Alex Panicker

Apr 8, 20212 min read

Google vs Oracle - Implications of Supreme Court verdict for Android app ecosystem

The dispute was if Google was right in using the APIs of JAVA SE, and providing its own implementation. Supreme Court said 'Yes'.

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.

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

Don Peter

Mar 17, 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.

How not to be a stupid software engineer.

Robin Alex Panicker

Feb 19, 20213 min read

How not to be a stupid software engineer.

Code of a global major's internal software gets leaked, a bank losing $500M, and tier 1 companies burning $900B in digital transformation.

Monitoring HTTP requests in Android apps

Don Peter

Jan 31, 20213 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.

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

Robin Alex Panicker

Jan 30, 20212 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

Why do we need to monitor features for failures in Android apps?

Don Peter

Dec 28, 20203 min read

Why do we need to monitor features for failures in Android apps?

Finotes provides a mechanism to monitor execution of functions in a defined sequence. This helps in monitoring features.

Handling bugs that can be anticipated in Android apps.

Don Peter

Nov 21, 20202 min read

Handling bugs that can be anticipated in Android apps.

By integrating a bug reporting tool like Finotes, mobile app developers will be able to report anticipated failure scenarios

How to detect screen load delays in Android apps

Don Peter

Oct 21, 20202 min read

How to detect screen load delays in Android apps

In Android apps screen load delay occurs when the main thread executes time consuming processes while loading a new activity or fragment.

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

Don Peter

Oct 5, 20203 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.

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.

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