The reliability of any mobile app is as important as its existence.
Since more users may depend on your mobile apps to carry out their businesses, it’s important to ensure that your mobile app is stable and robust and doesn’t crash abruptly.
Although there are several reasons why mobile applications crash, I’ve shared 5 major reasons that your app maker must address.
#1 Poor memory usage
Poor memory management is perhaps the most important reason for any mobile app’s crash issue.
How does inappropriate memory usage lead to the crash of a mobile app?
When an app spins too many threads and takes up the memory resources of a mobile device, it may crash.
Therefore, it is crucial for all app developers to take care of the memory allocation for their applications so that they don’t consume unnecessary device resources.
#2 Fatal errors during app development
Your mobile app developer likely overlooked fatal errors that caused the app to crash abruptly.
In most cases, when your app developer is required to add new features to your application, the other features may be affected and produce these fatal errors.
What’s the solution here?
After adding the new functionalities to your mobile application, your hired app developer must ensure thorough testing to locate and fix any possible bug(s).
#3 Device incompatibility
Device incompatibility is among the most popular issues caused by an app crash.
Does your app work fine on Android devices but surface crash issues on iOS?
Or, if your app works well on some Android devices but doesn’t work correctly on other Android handsets, it could be a device incompatibility issue.
App developers should test their applications on different devices to check for device compatibility. This could be done using app stimulators or manual tests.
#4 Integration dependencies
Usually, the integration dependency of an app could be in 2 forms:
- If your mobile application is not well synced with its web services, it may cause frequent crashes.
- If your app uses 3rd party APIs and it’s not communicating well with the external server, it may also cause a crash.
So here is another area to consider for you or your app developer while determining the possible causes of your app crash.
#5 Changes in data network
Have you ever encountered an app crash while switching your data connection from Wi-Fi to a cellular network or vice versa? I am sure you have.
Don’t let this happen to your app users.
Switching over of data network must be an integral part of any app testing process.
In other words, while testing your mobile app, you or your developer must switch over the device’s data network to ensure that there is no lag or crash.