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Popular External Tools
There are many production tools that are used to simplify the development of Android apps by providing easy analytics, metrics and crash reporting. Here are a few of the best providers for each category.
These are the best mobile analytics reporting tools:
- Mixpanel - Strong app analytics plaform
- Google Analytics for Android - Tried and true Android analytics
- Countly - New open-source mobile analytics
- Flurry - Tracks users and time spent on app
- Localytics - All-in-one analytics platform for mobile
These are the best crash reporting tools:
- Firebase - Only one of the services offered by the Google platform
- Crashlytics - Awesome and simple crash reporting (see demo app)
- New Relic for Android - Crash reporting and performance optimization
- HockeyApp - Crash reporting and app distributions
- Rollbar - Robust crash reporting
- Instabug - In-App Feedback and Bug Reporting
These are the best tools for distributing beta builds for your apps:
- BuddyBuild - Continuous integration, feedback reporting, and beta build distribution
- TestFairy - Complete Testflight Replacement
- [Appaloosa.io] (https://www.appaloosa-store.com/app-beta-testing) - Simple and secure OTA app distribution
- DeployGate - Painless OTA distribution for apps
- HockeyApp - Simple OTA app distributions
These are the best services for easy push messaging:
These are the best A/B testing services:
- Optimizely
- Apptimize
- Arise
- Splitforce
- Leanplum
- Taplytics
- Darkly - real-time feature flag management
These are the best resources for testing your app across multiple real and emulated devices.
- TestObject - New site for scheduled or manual black box testing of Android apps or mobile web sites. Allows testing on real devices.
- SauceLabs - Test native mobile apps on a variety of iOS & Android emulator configurations.
- Google Cloud Test Lab - Cloud Test Lab allows you to run all of your tests across all physical devices, all at the same time.
- Monkop - Get detailed analysis about performance, security and functionality of your Android apps.
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