New iOS 8 APIs trigger higher app crash rate

In its first days of availability, iOS 8, Apple's newest mobile operating system, has exhibited an app crash rate significantly higher than iOS 7 did a year ago, an app performance management developer said yesterday.
"Apple, to their credit, released a ton of great new functionality [in iOS 8], with twice the number of new APIs than iOS 7," said Levy in an interview. "Some of those APIs are for screen optimization, some are for GPU usage. It's actually a combination of things. Apple deprecated some APIs, changed others, making it really tough for the ecosystem to keep up."
The changes -- new APIs, changed APIs, dropped APIs -- meant that apps written earlier, in most cases targeting iOS 7, were more likely to crash under the new iOS.
Levy explained the lower app crash rate on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus -- the latter's rate was 36% lower than the combined pre-iPhone 6 models -- to optimization of the OS on those devices, particularly APIs for responsive design, necessary to account for the proliferation of iPhone screen sizes, and for more efficient use of the graphics processor (GPU).

How to assess a mobile app’s performance to drive growth?

Mobile apps are everywhere and have become an integral part of every smartphone users’ life. Opportunities in the mobile app industry are getting bigger and better and so are the difficulties and complexities.

With more number of opportunities pouring in more contenders are interested and getting involved in the apps business but not everyone emerge as winners. An astonishing fact is that around 80-90% of the apps are deleted after being used once. This figure clearly shows the quality issues which mobile apps are facing due to hardware, software and connectivity related issues.

With a lot of options available end users have become all the more expecting and don’t hesitate to uninstall an app and move on with the next one. The major reason for the dissatisfaction is the poor performance of the app. Delayed response time, poor user interface, crashing etc are those which encourage people from stop using an app.

In order to get your app rid of such performance issues mobile APM (App Performance Monitoring) is of utmost importance. Now let us look into what are the major problems faced by app developers, drawbacks of the existing mobile app monitoring techniques and ways to improvise it.

Beta testing is now available on appstore.

You can now have beta testing for your iOS app. The new beta testing supports up to 1000 devices.
You need to upload your app to itunesconnect for beat testing similarly you upload an app to appstore. Then you can send the app link to users or testers. It is simple and convenient. It also allows small enterprise to upload their app using developer program. It will eventually save $100 per year to small organization having upto 1000 target users only. For a good product it's always good to have alpha and beta testing versions before the final launch. This way you can do load testing, get more feedback and reviews. And it will increase your chances to have a better and bug free final product.