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The Importance of Device Testing - A Minute of Overpass

The emulators (or simulators) you get for iOS and Android are great and many times you can do all of your coding with just the emulator. But, don't forget the physical device needs to be tested too. In this week's Minute of Overpass, I tell you about some times I didn't do proper device testing (and how that failed) and some tools you can use to help you do it for your apps. For more information, visit http://www.overpass.co.uk. About Overpass: Overpass is a mobile app development company based in the UK that actually makes money from its own apps as well as creating money-making apps for clients. We have our ideas and build them. We can build your ideas too. If you haven’t started creating your mobile app yet, and need a UK App Developer, give us a call. Our team consists of developers and designers with years of experience in various business sectors. We build apps in native iOS, Android, and Corona SDK. We are based in Wantage, Oxfordshire. Find out more about Overpass at www.Overpass.co.uk. Check out our educational games such as Mandarin Bubble Bath, Agent X, and Deep Sea Typing. Check out our spy apps like Ear Spy, Alarm Spy, and Eye Spy. If you are looking to get an app developed and want to discuss it, give us a call on 0845 834 1008 (+44 Country Code). Or email us at [email protected]. Overpass on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+OverpassCoUk/ Overpass on Facebook:   / overpassapps   Overpass on Twitter:   / overpassltd   About Eric: Eric Wroolie is the owner of Overpass. He has built software and web-based solutions for very many large and small companies including Macmillan Publishing, RibbonFish, BNP Paribas, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, BBC Worldwide, CircData and Omega Logic. Before that, he was a Chinese Mandarin and Vietnamese Linguist for the US Army and then a school teacher. Now, he makes apps. Eric on Twitter:   / ericwroolie   Eric on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+EricWroolie Add me on Snapchat! Username: eric.wroolie   / eric.wroolie   Transcription: So this week I wanna talk about testing, more specifically, I wanna talk about device testing. Now it's one thing as a software developer or as an app developer, it's easy to use like an emulator or a simulator and just do everything on the desktop. In fact, you can even make an Android app using the simulator alone and never have to actually have an Android device. However, the problem with that is that as soon as you get on an actual device, a lot of times you run into trouble, so it's best to have physical devices around to test on. The reason why I say testing on a device is important 'cause if you've ever done anything where you've released an app and haven't tested it on a device, you find out you have different kinds of issues. To give you an example, we released an e-book last year for Christmas and what happened was everything worked fine in the simulator and I didn't really do any device testing, I could've done 'cause I have all the devices, but you know, I was kinda lazy and when we put it on a device we found out it ran into memory errors. And the reason for this is that even though the iPad simulator on the Mac OS, it works exactly the same way, it doesn't support push notifications but it does support all the things that an iPad does. So it was really good for testing however, it has all the power of a Macbook so once we got it on to an actual physical device, it crashed. So it would crash for memory warning on a certain page. It was kind of embarrassing to actually put it through the app store and it was Apple who actually rejected it. So from then on, we have to test on physical devices. Now, what you shouldn't do is go out there and buy like the top of the range because most of the users might not have top of the range, especially with Android. Android is the cheap mobile phone, so we should look lower down on the spectrum and get something like a hundred dollar phone or a hundred pound phone and test on that. So that's it for this week. My advice this week is you cannot rely on just emulators online, you have to do some device testing. And believe me, I've burned by it several times before in order to know better. So that's it for this week. Now just to let you know, we do have a blog, so we publish several blog posts a week on www.overpass.co.uk, they're really good. You can register for the newsletter so you don't miss anything, just to keep you informed. And thank you so much for all the comments. I know somebody commented recently saying we need to go deeper with the topics, I'll work on that, I'll work on that, I'll work on some deeper topics. Thank you, I think it's Targa studios. Anyway, that's it for this week, I'll talk to you next week.Bye! #OverpassApps #AppBusiness