Popular External Tools

Overview

There are many production tools that are used to simplify the development of Android apps by providing easy analytics, metrics and crash reporting. Here are a few of the best providers for each category.

Analytics

These are the best mobile analytics reporting tools:

• Mixpanel - Strong app analytics plaform
• Kontagent - Popular analytics platform
• Google Analytics for Android - Tried and true Android analytics
• Countly - New open-source mobile analytics
• Flurry - Tracks users and time spent on app
• Localytics - All-in-one analytics platform for mobile

Crash Reporting

These are the best crash reporting tools:

• Crashlytics - Awesome and simple crash reporting (see demo app)
• New Relic for Android - Crash reporting and performance optimization
• HockeyApp - Crash reporting and app distributions
• Rollbar - Robust crash reporting

OTA Builds

These are the best tools for distributing beta builds for your apps:

• TestFairy - Complete Testflight Replacement
• DeployGate - Painless OTA distribution for apps
• HockeyApp - Simple OTA app distributions

Push Messaging

These are the best services for easy push messaging:

• Parse Push
• Mixpanel Push
• PushBots
• Pushover

A/B Testing

These are the best A/B testing services:

• Optimizely
• Apptimize
• Arise
• Splitforce
• Leanplum
• Taplytics

Device Testing

These are the best resources for testing your app across multiple real and emulated devices.

• TestObject - New site for scheduled or manual black box testing of Android apps or mobile web sites. Allows testing on real devices.
• SauceLabs - Test native mobile apps on a variety of iOS & Android emulator configurations.
• Google Cloud Test Lab - Cloud Test Lab allows you to run all of your tests across all physical devices, all at the same time.

Performance

• Monkop - Get detailed analysis about performance, security and functionality of your Android apps.