Here’s what you need to know about Flutter and Nativetap

From time to time, the development community is presented with a new technology, framework or environment that has the potential to become a major game changer. For now, I don’t know if Flutter is one of the “next big things”, but you can test and debug Android apps built in Flutter with Nativetap's help. What exactly …

User Experience Design for mobile apps is much more than you’d think

Once again, I recently started to read about User Experience (UX) design and, as always, I found that people tend to think about UX as something much, much smaller than it in fact is. However, this time I also decided to respond to these claims. User Experience Design does not equal User Interface Design Despite …

When an Android emulator is not enough

Some time ago I told my buddy Brian (who’s "accidentally" an Android developer) about Nativetap. No force-feeding, no fanaticism, just plain and simple information sharing. Maybe the guy gonna help himself to some FTL bug fixing. And what do I hear? “Nah, thanks. I can do it all in the emulator.” Wait. What? Honestly, I’ll …

On Observing Trends in the Android App Development Market and Reacting to Them

Have you ever thought about trends projection and its impact on the market? For example, similar movies being released over the course of a couple of weeks? You start reminiscing about 2001: A Space Odyssey and suddenly you're being attacked with Interstellar, Martian (Both are great. Really.) and all that bunch. That's the trends movie studios observed, forecasted and …

5 Android IDEs that natively work with Nativetap

List of 5 popular IDEs used by Android developers which are integrated with Nativetap, plus some information on Nativetap integration in general.

Nativetap is sponsoring droidcon Berlin 2017

At Nativetap, we have a fondness for two things: fast, interactive and uncluttered Android app development; and….a little bit of magic. This fondness led us to build a device farm which magically puts any device in your hand in less than 10 seconds. We are now going on the road to share this magic with …

Integrate Nativetap and Crashlytics for Android Debugging Heaven

There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to find the exact spot where something broke in your code, much less finding it while the device and your app is running. Crashlytics + Nativetap Android Studio Plugin is a handy addition to Android Studio designed to allow jumping straight into the code in order to fix a …

How to Debug Your Android Apps With Nativetap

Debugging software can be a tedious, and sometimes daunting, job, even for the best. In order to accurately fix any given problem, a developer has to reproduce it in a controlled environment, understand the cause, make changes to the code, and then ensure that the problem is gone. Debugging is especially hard when dealing with …

Securely Test Your Android Apps on Nativetap

When testing your applications it is important to remove all barriers to a clean testing environment. Often when users are using your application, there are many factors in place which could contribute to a poor experience - and usually not within your control. Factors such as bloatware (mobile carriers in the US love bloatware), other …

Test Android Apps Without Device Fragmentation Getting in the Way

It’s no secret that Android is the largest Mobile OS in the world, with more than 2 billion active monthly users as of May 2017 (running Google Play that is). It’s also no secret that Android is the most fragmented Mobile OS platform, with over 24,000 different device models running the little, green robot. That …