Did your mobile app crash successfully?

Believe it or not, but mobile apps do crash and crash logs can help us build higher quality software products and, above all, make our users happy.

The purpose of this presentation is to help us understand why our apps crash in the first place, what is a crash log and what we have to know in order to take full advantage of these logs and the information they contain.

The presentation is based on iOS environment examples, but the general principles apply to all mobile development platforms.

Transcript

1. alexcristea iOS developer Did  your  mobile  app   crash  successfully?    
2. “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.“ Brian Kernighan
4. 1.  An airplane in a tree 2.  The color of the black box 3.  Batman`s signal
5. Did your app crash?
6. Apps crash
7. Unhappy users
8. Bad reviews
9. Lower sales
10. Bad reputation
13. This is a crash!
14. OS
19. That`s a crash report!
20. App & airplane
22. Crash report
24. Android
25. Windows 8
26. iOS
33. Examples
38. Bugs in Your.app
41. Watchdog timeout 0X8badf00d
46. User force-quit 0Xdeadfa11
51. Low Memory (jettisoned)
52. Symbolication
53. dSYM app
54. crash
55. dSYM app crash
56. Collection
57. Xcode Organizer
59. iTunes Sync
61. ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/<DEVICE>
62. C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\Application Data\Apple computer\Logs\CrashReporter\<DEVICE>
63. C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Apple computer\Logs \CrashReporter\MobileDevice\<DEVICE>
64. iTunes Connect
70. Third Party
71. Crash Reporting Analytics Alarms Distribution
73. Crittercism (from 0$)
74. (free trial)
75. Air Brake (paid)
76. Test Flight (free)
77. QuincyKit (open source)
78. PLCrashReporter (open source)
79. Installation
80. Registration
81. Download
82. Integrate
83. Enjoy!
84. HockeyApp Dashboard
85. Web != m0b1le
86. SUCCESS!   alexcristea alex@thinslices.com