April 28, 2026
Bugsee for Kotlin Multiplatform - Now Live
Today we're opening the public beta of the Bugsee Kotlin Multiplatform SDK - the next chapter in a story we've been writing for nearly a decade: helping mobile teams ship stable,…
Bugsee blog
Tips, deep dives and updates from the Bugsee team — covering mobile QA, debugging and SDK news.
April 23, 2026
Bugsee Android SDK 7.0 — A New Era
We're releasing the beta of Bugsee Android SDK 7.0 — the most significant release in the product's history. Version 7 is a complete ground-up rewrite: new capture engine, new…
January 25, 2026
Ten Years of Bugsee
This January, Bugsee turns ten. That sentence still makes me pause. Not because we didn’t aim to build something lasting — we absolutely did — but because ten years looks very…
December 26, 2025
Bugsee vs Sentry (Mobile): Which Crash Reporter Helps You Debug Faster?
You caught the error. Now what? Sentry is built to help teams monitor and track errors across web, mobile, and backend services. It sends alerts, groups issues, and displays…
December 26, 2025
Bugsee vs Instabug: Which Debugging Tool Delivers Real Developer Context?
When a user reports a bug—or worse, abandons the app entirely—your team has two choices: Spend hours retracting what happened, or use a tool that already knows. 💡Editor’s…
December 26, 2025
Bugsee vs Crashlytics: Which Crash Reporter Gives You the Full Picture?
Mobile crash reporting has evolved. If your crash reporting still only relies on stack traces, you’re likely missing the bigger picture—and wasting valuable developer time.…
September 25, 2025
Mobile Crash Symbolication: How to Decode What Your Stack Traces Are Really Saying
You shipped the app. The crash reports are coming in. Now the question is: can you actually trust what they are telling you? On the surface, it may seem like your…
September 8, 2025
Mastering Null Reference Exceptions in Unity: Advanced Prevention & Debugging Guide
You hit Play in the Unity Editor to test your scene — everything runs smoothly, until the console slams you with: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an…
August 29, 2025
Mobile App Performance Metrics: The KPIs That Drive Speed, Stability, and User Satisfaction
With mobile apps now the default way people shop, bank, and connect, users expect them to be fast, stable, and responsive—every time they open them. A few seconds of delay or an…
August 23, 2025
Optimizing Cold, Warm, and Hot Starts: A Developer’s Guide to Faster App Launches
Your mobile app has five seconds to impress a new user—and not much more to keep them.. If it’s a cold start, most of those five seconds are spent just getting your app ready to…
August 19, 2025
Key Differences Between Real User Monitoring and Synthetic Monitoring for Mobile Apps
Monitoring mobile performance is uniquely challenging. Two users on the same app version can have radically different experiences—one of 5G with a Pixel 8, another on spotty…
August 7, 2025
What is Apdex?
When an application slows down, users might not complain—they simply disengage. A delay during login, a frozen screen, or a lagging workflow can quietly erode trust, conversions,…
July 17, 2025
Why Do My Apps Keep Crashing? Causes, Fixes, and Prevention (2025 Guide)
App crashes aren’t just annoying—they’re costly. For users, a crash might mean abandoning a purchase, closing your app mid-session, or deleting it altogether. For developers, it’s…
May 21, 2025
The Role of AI and Machine Learning in Quality Assurance
In an industry where speed often trumps stability, QA teams are under constant pressure to deliver more test coverage, faster, and with fewer bugs slipping through. However, as…
May 19, 2025
What Really Happens During the App Testing Stage? A Full-Cycle Guide for Mobile Teams
Most teams treat testing like a final checklist before launch: One last sprint to squash bugs, greenlight QA, and ship. But that mindset is costing companies more than they…
May 16, 2025
How to Distribute Your Mobile App for Beta Testing (iOS + Android)
For many mobile app development teams, beta testing is treated like a box to tick off right before launch, with just enough external validation to greenlight the release. But in…
May 1, 2025
iOS App Testing Tools, Techniques, & Best Practices for Modern QA Teams
You can write flawless Swift code, follow Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines to the letter, and still ship an iOS app that fails under real-world conditions. Why?Succinctly…
April 23, 2025
Best Apache Cordova Alternatives in 2025: A CTO’s Migration Guide
For over a decade, Apache Cordova served as a reliable entry point into mobile app development. By leveraging web technologies, developers could deploy cross-platform apps without…
April 10, 2025
Complete Guide to React Native Deployment for iOS and Android
React Native is one of the most widely used frameworks for building cross-platform mobile apps. Although React Native supports multiple platforms, it’s most commonly used for…
March 19, 2025
Responsive Web App vs. Native Mobile App: A Comprehensive Guide
In 2025, people still use mobile devices for the internet, and native apps take up much of their time on screens. However, responsive web design (RWD) is still liked because it…
March 11, 2025
ANR vs. Crash: Understanding Android Application Errors
Imagine you’re using an app, and suddenly, it freezes—forcing you to wait or force-close it. Or worse, it crashes without warning, making you lose your progress. In Android app…
February 27, 2025
Understanding Kotlin Enum Classes
In many programming languages, enums (short for enumerations) are often used simply as lists of predefined constants. However, in Kotlin, enums are much more than that; they are…
February 21, 2025
Flutter vs React Native vs .Net Maui
Flutter, React Native, and .NET MAUI are three leading frameworks in cross-platform app development, each backed by a major tech giant Google, Meta, and Microsoft respectively.…
February 13, 2025
KMP vs Flutter: A Comprehensive Comparison for 2025
Throughout our day-to-day work, we’ve seen cross-platform frameworks evolve from experimental solutions into highly valuable tools for delivering apps on multiple platforms. For…
January 30, 2025
Your Next Mobile App Platform in 2025: A Comprehensive Guide to Native and Cross-Platform Development
In the rapid evolution of the contemporary digital ecosystem, selecting the correct mobile application development route is more than a technical consideration. It is an implicit…
January 23, 2025
How to Set up Continuous Testing for Android App Development
As Android apps become more popular, it’s essential to ensure they’re free of bugs and work smoothly. This is where Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Testing (CT)…
January 16, 2025
Distributing Your Android App to Testers Without the Google Play Console
When testing an Android app, distributing it to testers outside the Google Play Console can sometimes make the process faster and more flexible. In this guide, we’ll explore how…
January 10, 2025
The Anatomy of an Android Crash: From Exception to Stack Trace
How often have you been using an interesting Android app, only for it to crash unexpectedly? No one wants to use an app that crashes frequently—it disrupts the experience and…
September 30, 2022
Bugsee Chrome will be shut down on Dec/31/2022
Despite enthusiastic use of Bugsee for Chrome by many of our customers over the past six years, we’ve found that there hasn’t been as much demand for this type of…
January 17, 2019
How Bugsee Can Help Protect Your Mobile App Rankings
The user experience is golden. Without the user, a mobile app cannot succeed. This is why it is important to ensure bugs do not drive users away. Bugs ruin the user experience and…
June 21, 2018
Android file upload doesn’t have to be hard
If you’re new to app development in Android, file upload might appear like an uphill task. But in reality it’s just two things — requesting permission to access the…
March 20, 2018
Is Bugsee Any Good?
You probably wonder whether you need Bugsee and is it any good? Well, let me try to address these here. Video Have you ever wondered how your users get to a certain state in your…
December 20, 2017
Can Bugsee do this? Really?
Holiday season is upon us and I wanted to wish that your mobile app will be super stable and bug free in 2018, which in turn, will result in a healthy user growth! Recently I took…
December 9, 2017
iOS Crash Symbolication for dummies Part 3 – Bitcode and symbol maps
In the first post in the series we learned what symbolication is and how it works, the second post taught us how to use Apple provided tools and helper…
October 6, 2017
Automating cross platform building and continuous testing with Jenkins
In this article we will see how to manage builds for Swift projects, examplified with PackStream, through Jenkins, an open source build server. We will build it for iOS,…
July 25, 2017
Using Fastlane to create iOS Ad-Hoc distribution on Amazon S3
This tutorial is a revised tutorial we’ve published earlier, called iOS Ad-Hoc distribution using Amazon S3. The original tutorial achieved the desired effect…
July 18, 2017
SSL certificate pinning on iOS using TrustKit
We have already covered why certificate pinning in mobile apps is important and have shown how to implement it both in iOS and Android. For the sake of simplicity, we…
June 15, 2017
SSL certificate pinning in iOS applications
What is certificate pinning? In this day and age more and more user data is stored electronically. Users are expecting end-to-end security from every application they are…
May 24, 2017
Listening to scroll events on Android views
What is the problem? While the need to listen to scroll events of arbitrary views in Android has always existed, no such mechanisms were provided by Google until Android API level…
May 16, 2017
The advanced guide for using breakpoints in XCode
Overview Debugging is an important process to understand the unexpected behaviour of your application. For this reason, we must know well how to use the breakpoints to reduce the…
April 19, 2017
Secure uploading of files from an iOS or Android app to S3
Why? Most of the mobile applications these days require some form of a backend. Usually it is used for something trivial, like maintaining user profiles, settings and scores etc.…
March 21, 2017
iOS Crash Symbolication for dummies Part 2
In the previous post, we’ve learned what is symbolication process and why it is needed. In this post we will dive deeper and learn how to make sure a dSYM file is…
March 9, 2017
iOS Crash Symbolication for dummies Part 1
Many developers use Bugsee for its great crash reporting capabilities. In fact, Bugsee crash reporting has recently been ranked the highest among all iOS crash reporting…
January 24, 2017
Bugsee is on Product Hunt Today
I’m thrilled to announce that Bugsee is on Product Hunt today. Can’t wait for the Product Hunt community’s feedback and thoughts. Why Today? Last year we won the #1…
December 31, 2016
What happened after Bugsee sponsored Core Intuition Podcast
Back a few months ago, we’ve sponsored a couple of Core Intuition podcasts to both support the fine work Manton Reece and Daniel Jalkut do for the…
December 22, 2016
Best iOS crash reporting tool. Yes, we are!
We are proud to announce that as of last week, Bugsee can officially be called The Best Crash Reporting tool for iOS. Bugsee now marks higher than the competition…
December 17, 2016
How we settled on Bugsee paid plans
We’ve achieved an important milestone last month — Bugsee joined the One Comma Club, as more than 1,000 companies had signed up for Bugsee since our start just this April.…
November 16, 2016
App development, bug reporting, and more in this GeekSpeak podcast with Bugsee
Back in early September, Lyle Troxell from GeekSpeak invited Dmitry and myself to his ad-hoc studio at Netflix in Los Gatos to record an episode for…
August 31, 2016
Managing iOS build configurations
Why? Applications today are rarely being built without 3rd party libraries and SDKs. There are libraries for integrating remote backends into your app. Libraries for…
August 29, 2016
iOS Ad-hoc distribution using Amazon S3
Every iOS developer at some point in their life is challenged with a task to distribute their awesome app to a group of loyal beta testers. Apple does not make it easy. The…
August 26, 2016
Introducing Bugsee Blog
Hello world! Today, we are introducing Bugsee corporate blog, ran by our engineering team under the helm of our CTO, Dmitry Fink. We plan to cover a wide variety of technical…