This is the question which many of our clients ask on daily basis. There are lot of factors who depends on the crash rates, and the major ones are enlisted here:
- Programming Techniques & QA
- Device Issues
- Meet the latest policies, Stay up-to-date
- Programming Techniques & QA:
First and main part of it, is the programming techniques and the way a developer has applied the programming techniques to develop an app. It happens that a mediocre developer may always a loop or memory hole in the development phase. Or lack of skills may also cause the loop hole or major crash. A developer while having no better QA resources will only try to fix the bugs in 1 or 2 possible available devices and the testing phase will be over from his side. Meanwhile, a good developer a good team never get satisfied with their work, they keep testing it, improving and use the latest techniques of programming practices, try to test the app in maximum devices. Also, they track the crash analyzer so that if a user is facing a major crash somewhere, he will get notify about that and they immediately fix them and update
- Device Issues:
This is the second factor who may cause of crashes to your app or game, if an app or game is developed even using the best practices, and all the techniques are applied even though an app may crash, break or damage while using by a user. It happens in especially android, because of so many android devices, versions, companies, and their nature of operating system we cannot control crashes 100%. The easy way to understand this is, like you made an app and app memory within the mobile device is full flowed then it may also cause crash of the app. Cache if full loaded then it also may cause of crash. Or your app is running in very lower version of android, and your app is in the latest dimensions and SDK it may also break the app. If you are an old android user, then you may know that, Whatsapp has disabled their updates in most of the devices which device versions are very low because Whatsapp latest features may not run successfully in some specific old devices. Also, after some specific time the companies also disable overall updates of the operating system, like you won’t be able to get update of OS of Galaxy s7 Edge by the Samsung because as the devices get older, they may not suit to meet the current promoting techniques, features and may cause overflow of memory. - Meet the latest policies, Stay up-to-date:
In the business of developing apps and games always follow the rule, to rule over the store which is that “Latest updates on the projects, adding new features, may turn your project into a product” those who always keen and dedicated to update their project, remove loop holes, improve SDK and whatever come to compliance they do. It also reduces your crash rates and make your user happier. With the passage of time store like android or apple store improve themselves in the sense of security, reliability and with that they recommend to developer to stay update with their latest policies so that their projects may entertain the latest features. If some of the permissions are removed by the store, and your app is not updated, and using the old permissions, or an old SDK then how could you expect to make your app 100% crash free. Stay up to date is the key of success of this business.