The 5 Tools Your Mobile App Needs After Launch

Overview

Your app is live. Now the real work begins. This is a fast, no-narration-fluff tour of everything you need to run a mobile app after launch — crashes, users, and releases — without switching between five different tools. It's all in one AppAmbit dashboard.

Prerequisites

To follow along in your own dashboard, make sure you have:

1. An AppAmbit account (sign up for free)
2. At least one app connected with its App Key

Key Features Shown

Crashes & Errors

Errors and crashes are charted separately over the last 30 days, so a spike in one doesn't hide a spike in the other. Click into either chart and it breaks down By OS and By Device — useful the moment a report only reproduces on one Android version or one specific handset.

Every row in the list below the charts carries the failing class, its type, the app versions it showed up in, occurrence count, affected users, and when it was last seen. From there, Session Timeline → View jumps straight from the crash into the exact session that produced it — device, OS, app version, and what happened right before the failure — without hunting for it separately in Sessions.

Analytics

The same app record, one tab over from Diagnostics, so you go from "is my app breaking" to "who's actually using it" without losing context. The Active Users chart tracks daily active users over the selected range, backed by four numbers that matter day to day: Online (active in the last hour), Orphaned (sessions with no end event in 24+ hours — a decent proxy for crashes your SDK didn't catch), average session Duration, and average Sessions per day.

Below that, Session Durations buckets how long people actually stay (filterable, e.g. "Under 1 hour"), and a Sessions volume chart shows day-by-day traffic — so you can tell a real growth trend from a one-day spike.

Push Notifications

Sending one is a single form, but every field a mobile push actually needs is there: click action (what happens when it's tapped — must match an intent in your manifest), channel id (required on Android 8+), notification priority, default sound, lock-screen visibility, and an analytics label for tracking the campaign back in Firebase or your own funnels. A custom data payload (key/value pairs) rides along on both Android (FCM data) and iOS, so the tap can deep-link into a specific screen instead of just opening the app.

Every notification you've sent — scheduled or already delivered — shows up in a list with its target type, status, and both scheduled and created timestamps, so you're not guessing whether a campaign actually went out.

Remote Config

A config is a key, a type (string, boolean, number...), and a value your app fetches at runtime — no release required to change it. In the tour, a boolean flag (live_session_streaming) gets created, set to true, and toggled through an Enabled switch that the SDK respects immediately: disable it and the app stops receiving that config on its next fetch.

Version Targeting is optional but matters for staged rollouts — set a minimum and/or maximum app version so only the builds you intend get the new value, while older or newer versions fall back to their default. The list view shows every key, its current value, type, enabled state, and when it was last updated, so nothing gets left flipped on by accident.

Build Delivery

The Releases table lists every build with its crash-free session percentage and in-use percentage — the share of your traffic actually running that version right now — so you can tell at a glance which release is safe to widen rollout on and which one needs attention.

Opening a release's Release Details page goes deeper: crash-free sessions and in-use percentage for that specific build, total sessions in the period, plus the release's Bundle ID, commit SHA, branch, version, build number, who or what triggered it, when it was created, and a link to the CI job that produced it. Files and Installation Stats round it out — everything you'd need to answer "is it safe to push this build to more testers, or to our clients."

Next Steps

After watching this tour, check out:

• AppAmbit Documentation
• Advanced Analytics Guide