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I finally updated AppGoblin to show the most popular mobile SDKs that are used for Android and iOS apps. To recap, I’ve now decompiled ~24k Android and 6k iOS apps. I check for various plugins/frameworks/SDKs and have made a list of which are used in the most apps. You can also click into each one…
I keep coming across iOS frameworks that I can’t connect back to a company. Some examples from today are these SDKs with RTLMX in the name like They all sound quite interesting, but unfortunately no Google / Bing results Keeping track of the Known Unknowns? I think it would be good to surface these somehow…
I took the afternoon to peek inside DeepSeek to see the various Chinese SDKs and tag some new Chinese companies AppGoblin wasn’t previously tracking (*cough* tencent, not sure how I wasn’t tracking that one yet). SDKs So I found three companies which I previously wasn’t quite tracking and added those in. So let’s go over…
Been troubleshooting this decline for months. About 6 months ago, before I started paying attention, AppGoblin had no meta headers, no canonical pages, and no SEO optimization of any kind. Many pages routinely took 10 seconds to load. At some point I took an interest in growing the site, it honestly only gets a few…
I’ve had great success with ClickHouse on a 4GB RAM server (shared with other things, full load) but not so on my small server with only 2GB RAM and 2GB swap. I’m having some trouble lately with running ClickHouse, along with 5 or so other services like Kafka, Zookeeper, two python backends and a Node/Svelte…
Dynamic deep links hosted by Google Firebase are on their way out, so it’s time to look for the alternatives. I’ll cover the few open source projects I’ve seen as well as the top paid options. Open Source & Free Really, all this work just to provide a link to your app? Yeah, it’s really…
2 GB Maximum file size sounds great for GitHub LFS. When I saw that I thought, perfect, it’s small but it’ll do. Time to push! “Git LFS disabled for ddxv” Wait what? Git LFS has been disabled on your personal account ddxv because you’ve exceeded your data plan by at least 150%. Please purchase additional…
Just want to cover the recent steps I took in learning about how to get Geo Location information for OpenAttribution. The first step I took was to look into two existing open source analytics platforms that are alternatives to Google Analytics: Umami and Matomo. Umami I love using umami.is! It’s definitely the smaller of the…
For a week or two I’ve been working on updating the appgoblin.info top ad networks and MMPs. Currently both are still up, which should change but I’ll give an overview of the process of changing and what might be next up. Goal: Display the top clients I’ve long wanted to have a way to view…
While working on a new analytics dashboard I wanted to find a good table tool manage my table like data from the backend. My main goal is to have dynamic group by for the table’s dimensions. While this has been something that I’ve always liked about Python based backends, it definitely wasn’t something I found…