29.12.2021

Debugging your VIEWAPP app to work optimally with iOS 14

Every modern app inevitably encounters the regular occurrence of an update to the operating system on which the smartphone is running.

Usually updates are painless, but sometimes there are times when technological hurdles need to be overcome, as was the case with the iPhone upgrade to iOS 14. The VIEWAPP team have highlighted the following difficulties:

- Failures when performing 'big' inspections;

- Errors in capturing videos longer than 1 minute.

A thorough analysis of the situation revealed two inconsistencies at once, resulting in memory leaks:

- There has been a change in the way iOS allocates memory to the app;

- There was a change in the way the situation was handled, in which the application did not have enough memory to perform the operation.

This caused the application database to 'crash', randomly restarting or freezing on random steps and operations, which required VIEWAPP features to be fixed and adjusted as quickly as possible. 

VIEWAPP for iOS quickly detected and located the 5 memory leaks in VIEWAPP. VIEWAPP for iOS 2.8.4 works correctly as usual. 

Developing and maintaining an innovative app like VIEWAPP is a constant painstaking process and requires a lot of hard work - both from the development team and the users giving feedback on the APP. Only in this way is it possible to make the necessary changes, not only related to updates, but also to changing needs or business processes. 

We thank everyone involved in improving VIEWAPP and apologise to those users who have encountered difficulties with the update.