Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
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Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
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Re: Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
#2I have almost never had an iOS app crash on me. I get crashes in Android apps almost weekly. I honestly don't know where those guys are getting their data, but I really don't believe it.
It's true, it's a lot easier for developers on Android to fix bugs and quickly update their apps because of the lack of an approval process, but that also lowers the bar a great deal on the quality of apps (a lot of which never get updated).
Edit: I don't know how this goes on iOS, but for Android Market apps, you can see all crash reports straight in the publisher console, without the need for 3rd party services.
Re: Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
#3I have almost never had an iOS app crash on me. I get crashes in Android apps almost weekly. I honestly don't know where those guys are getting their data, but I really don't believe it. It's true, it's a lot easier for developers on Android to fix bugs and quickly update their apps because of the lack of an approval process, but that also lowers the bar a great deal on the quality of apps (a lot of which never get u…
If the graphic is to be believed, the data comes from one 3rd party crash reporting system.
I guess "Among apps that use the Crittercism service, iOS client applications crash more often" was a bit too wordy.
Re: Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
#4I suspect that the recent addition of automatic referencing counting will help a LOT for iOS apps.
Re: Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
#5It really irks me when crashes are made out to be the result of user actions, or some inescapable act of god. Excepting the very rare hardware fault, crashes are caused by a programmer error. PERIOD. That is all that really matters from the user's perspective. There may be some way to work around the bug by tinkering with things, but nothing the user does can ever cause a crash.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if iOS apps crash more than Android apps, because iOS doesn't have virtual memory. When an iOS app runs out of physical memory, it gets killed. This was allegedly a design decision.
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#6I have almost never had an iOS app crash on me. I get crashes in Android apps almost weekly. I honestly don't know where those guys are getting their data, but I really don't believe it. It's true, it's a lot easier for developers on Android to fix bugs and quickly update their apps because of the lack of an approval process, but that also lowers the bar a great deal on the quality of apps (a lot of which never get u…
The last two or three iOS updates caused quite a few crashes until some updates rolled in, and beyond that I still get some every day. Most of the on my iPad, mostly due to the fact that I use it a bit more and with apps that deal with more data (e.g. GoodReader) or network traffic (browsers, Flipboard, Alien Blue).
But that's anecdotal evidence anyway, and with my usage pattern you'd just need a few "black sheep" to really bring down the average.
My Android usage isn't that heavy, so not really comparable. Not that many crashes this far, but especially in the early days quite a few freezes.
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#7I've been repeatedly shocked about how many of my friends give me crap for liking Android and then talk about their apps crashing frequently. I can't say I've had a single app crash on my Galaxy Nexus and that includes running nightly CM9s.
Re: Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
#8I suspect that the recent addition of automatic referencing counting will help a LOT for iOS apps.
I wouldn't hold my breath. For the most part, if a developer can't be bothered to clean up their memory manually then they probably can't be bothered to use ARC properly. It's not trivial: http://longweekendmobile.com/2011/09/07/objc-automatic-refer...
Re: Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
#9I have almost never had an iOS app crash on me. I get crashes in Android apps almost weekly. I honestly don't know where those guys are getting their data, but I really don't believe it. It's true, it's a lot easier for developers on Android to fix bugs and quickly update their apps because of the lack of an approval process, but that also lowers the bar a great deal on the quality of apps (a lot of which never get u…
I get iOS app crashes all the time -- and not just third party applications. The app store seems particularly buggy and in the 5 months since I've had my iPhone; crashing on multiple occasions.
The worst problem I've ever had is some kind of corruption in the photos app. I thought perhaps it was a corrupt file but I couldn't launch the Photos app to delete it. I couldn't launch the camera app either. There's no way to delete any of the camera roll photos from iTunes either! I went over a month like this until I used a third party desktop application to delete every photo on the phone -- and that didn't work. So I started deleting random cache file in the file system before it finally started working again.
iOS apps crash pretty silently -- they just disappear. That might make the appearance of crashes much smaller.
Re: Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
#10YMMV, I guess. I believe there's a general rule that the more crappy apps you put on your device, the more often you will see crashes. I almost never see an app crash, the worst offender over the years has been the New York Times app, of all things. I periodically delete it and read the Times in Safari until they ship a new version. My wife OTOH plays a ton of games and sees a fair amount of crashes. I'm guessing games are not as well-tested, but also, more apps will mean more crashes. Crash, BTW, means "freezes up". Easy to recover by pushing the button and the phone and the rest of the apps are still fine. The phone itself has only crashed a couple of times over the last three years, requiring a power off and restart.