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Bug Forensics - How to debug an app that communicates with the server

When something crashes in an app, fixing the bug is usually quite straightforward. But apps can also be blighted by bugs that don’t result in crashes, and this is where things start to get interesting. To find and fix these bugs, you will require as much information as possible and probably a combination of tools. Let me explain a process we know as ‘bug forensics’, based on a real bug that has impacted one of Bugfender’s customers.

Deep Dive: Introducing Trace by Bitrise

We will take a deep dive on Trace, the new application performance monitoring (APM) solution we are building here at Bitrise. Trace is monitoring made for mobile, helping you catch bugs before they reach your users. We aim to give you the full context of any problems so that you can assess, reproduce, and fix them as quickly as possible. Colin Hemmings is a Product Manager at Bitrise, with nearly a decade of experience building monitoring solutions for mobile and server applications.

Deep Dive: Android Fan Out Builds

Success on mobile is about speed and it's about quality. In this webinar, Bitrise Sales engineer Tamas Bazsonyi explains how to get the best of both, by demonstrating how to combine speed and quality by speeding up Android builds on Bitrise. We are going to share a couple of suggestions to speed up your android builds and also share a sample solution for fan out builds with your Android project.

North Dakota's COVID-19 Contact Tracking App Uses Bugfender, What About Privacy?

Today, May 21st, we received an interesting email from a journalist writing for Fast Company. Apparently, a privacy-focused company audited the app Care19, North Dakota’s COVID-19 contact tracking app, and they found that an anonymous tracking ID generated by the app was sent via API to Bugfender along with other identifiers. While the journalist contacted the app developers, he also gave us the opportunity to comment.