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Published inJan 2016

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ISBN-139781783988464

Edition1st Edition

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iOS

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Forensics

Authors (2):

Bhanu Birani

Mayank Birani

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Desymbolication of crash logs

Once we have deployed our app, we won't be able to use the Xcode debugger tool to debug it. Our only aim should be to improve the customer's experience with your application. This involves fixing the application crash as soon as possible. This can be achieved by analyzing crash logs to debug the problems.

Receiving crash logs directly from a device without using Xcode

Every build of an app can have multiple crash reports and each crash report contains multiple crash logs, Apple's crash reporting service collects all the crash logs and groups similar crash logs into separate crash reports. The crash logs are collected by Apple only if the app user agrees to share crash data with the app developers. The Apple crash report service collects crash logs from apps running on user devices.

Getting ready

Users can get crash reports from the device itself and send them through e-mail. To see how to do this, look at the steps in the following section.

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Published in: Jan 2016Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781783988464

Authors (2)

Bhanu Birani

Bhanu Birani has more than 7 years of experience in the software industry. He is passionate about architecting, designing, and developing complicated applications. He specializes in creating web, backend as a service, and mobile products suitable for B2B and B2C context. He has expertise in end to end development to create innovative and engaging applications for mobile devices. After years of programming experience in different programming languages, he started developing applications for iOS devices. He started software development around the same time as his graduation and was really interested in learning about the new technologies emerging in the market. He then joined a game development company. After contributing to the gaming domain, he started working on content-based applications and radio applications. He also contributed to hyperlocal geo-targeting using BLE (iBeacons). Over the years, he has gained experience in all phases of software development as requirement gathering, feasibility analysis, architecture design, coding and debugging, quality improvement, deployment, and maintenance.
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Mayank Birani

Mayank Birani has more than 4 years of experience in the software industry. He was a star from the beginning of his career, and he worked with many start-ups. Soon after graduation, he started working on iOS/Mac technologies and is an R&D engineer for Apple Inc. India. He has an inherent passion for coding and developing applications to make the world a better place. He has contributed actively to many start-ups with revolutionary ideas. In the early stages of his career, he was the sole author of Learning iOS 8 for Enterprise by Packt Publishing.
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