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Android has so many devices that run on hardware with minimum to high specifications that performance is not the same across devices. Performance is the number one reason why people uninstall app and is dependent on not only how quickly an app runs or performs but how well it consumes various resources like battery, memory, data plan on the phone. Unhappy users will go to the Play Store and leave a bad review and a 1 star rating which spoils the reputation of the app.

To prevent this app developers use various tools during testing, to easily measure their apps performance characteristics, allow intuitive analysis of all the data that is captured, and also help them in the process of actually improving the same.

Little Eye is one such tool that uses an intuitive “Visual Correlation Engine” based interface which allows developers and testers to quickly identify performance and resource usage issues (like battery, CPU, memory, file system, etc) and enables easy communication of issues between testers and developers, by capturing all relevant information like screen, logs, events, threads automatically.

Little Eye is based in Bangalore and the team members like to call “ions” (short for “eye-ons”).

The dating app space is heating up and while this was considered a Western phenomenon till not very long back. Now a number of apps are being launched to target Indians specifically.

Thrill is an Android app, that is a fresh, safe take on meeting new people around you in India. What makes Thrill different is that it is controlled by women. While men can apply to join, they can only begin using the app if the women on the network approve.

The female users vote guys up and down in the application list and only the best ones make the cut. Thrill says they are “about quality, not quantity.”

Women get membership to the network automatically. Once a man is allowed to join he anonymously find someone “Thrilling” or “Not Thrilling”. If that person feels the same, an intro is made and from there you’re on your own.

According to the developers Thrilling can be anyone with a decent number of friends and interests; a profile picture that is genuine; someone who invites and gets ‘voted up’ by female friends and one who is young. Not Thrilling can be – being married or having a girlfriend; having only a few or no friends on Facebook; having a snapshot of a celebrity or a cartoon character as the profile picture and being a creep.

A man and a woman are matched using their interests from their Facebook or LinkedIn profiles.

The app has been built by a Singapore-incorporated startup that was founded by Josh Israel and Devin Serago in November 2012.

You can download the Android app here. The iOS app is expected to be released very soon.

Rail Wisdom is for travellers to share and seek information from fellow travellers taking the train. The product was built by startup RailYatri which works with the Indian Railways to provide information for passengers. The company wants to make this into a portal that will have information around more than 8000 railway stations that cover over 80% of the country.

The startup wants to connect rail passengers over the platform, which could become an online marketplace in itself.

At present the service is available only on the web, but mobile apps are scheduled to be launched in two-three weeks.

If it takes off, this could be big. Over 9 billion passengers (not unique) use Indian railways in a year. With improving mobile and wi-fi connectivity along the rail networks, imagine a marketplace connecting vendors, buyers and information seekers!

You can read our interview with Manish Rathi, the Co-Founder of Rail Yatri here.

Who needs emulators any more? pCloudy is a test environment on the cloud for developers. The cloud based platform covers over 9 versions of Android (iPhone in the pipeline), more than 8 screen resolutions, over 10 display sizes and more than 5 aspect rations for developers to test a website or an app using the browser.

With a growing number of operating systems, ever changing screen sizes and resolutions on new mobile devices that are launched almost every other day, it doesn’t make sense for developers to buy actual devices or many different emulators to test their applications. The platform comes with collaboration features. This makes life much easier, especially for distributed teams working on same applications.

pCloudy was founded earlier this year by Bhavesh Bhojani, Jaffer Sadhiq and Anil Adireddi who have worked in companies such as Nokia, Yahoo, Sasken, Samsung and Accenture.

Trackid, by Saltbridge, is a GPS enabled bag that will help parents keep track of their kid’s whereabouts and well being in real-time. The product is intended to take care of some of the primary concerns of parents like: Where’s my kid? What’s he doing now? Did he reach school safely? How long till school bus drops him home? Is he back home yet?

Trackid offers parents an easy way to keep track of their kids by just by sending an SMS, which will quickly fetch the current location of their kid in real time. Other than SMS, parents can also interact with Trackid through the web applications or the smartphone app.

The Trackid web application will also allow you to watch your kids commute on Google Maps. Parents can create Safe Zones for the kids, around frequently visited locations on the map and get notified whenever the kids leave or enter that zones.

The product also features a one-way voice feature, using which parents will have the ability to hear the kid and surrounding voices, making sure of what the kid is up to. parents can also access smart reports based on past activities and history giving a complete idea of past whereabouts. The product will be available both has a GPS enabled bag and portable device.

i7 Networks is an enterprise security company which has launched a solution called PeregrineGuard, which will give IT managers a way of securing the network by providing controls that help in discovering devices being used by employees, maintaining inventory of devices in use in a network and applying granular access control.

What problems are they solving? It keeps the network administrator in the know of all the devices that come into the corporate network, who they belong to, their vulnerability status and granular control. it supports all wireless devices and not just smartphones and tablets.

The angel backed company was co-founded by Manjunath M Gowda and Chandra M Shekar, who ran S7 Software, which was acquired by California based cyber security Bluecoat System in January 2010.

The Bangalore based company doesn’t need to deploy an agent on the employees’ device. That makes it a great proposition for companies which don’t like invading their employees privacy.

Whenever we travel by train, one of the biggest fears is sleeping and missing the station we have to get off at.

Rail Alarm by ColumbusAgain Software Technologies is an app which alerts you and wakes you up 15 kms before your selected station.

Both the Android and iOS version of the app were launched by ColumbusAgain at bigMobilityConf today.

The app does not rely on GPS, so does not drain your battery. It uses an intelligent backend system that the team has built over two years. The backend has the full railway network mapped. The app alerts users even if a train is delayed.

Rail Alarm also shows the current status of the train in Google Maps and the distance to your destination.

Definitely a must have app for all train travelers.

You can download the Android version of the app here and the iOS app here.

Building an app alone is not sufficient for any developer, testing it with a real audience in a live situation is what gives the real review of the application. BetaGlide is a Noida based startup, which provides a testing platform to developers for their application.

Founded in June last year by Amritanshu Anand, an IIT Kanpur graduate, BetaGlide is a cloud based platform for mobile application developers and testers which enables them to test the apps in a real time environment.  Application can be tested using real devices among actual users.

A developer can track and manage testing cycle of an application and the tool allows to measure memory and CPU usage time, generate logs for debugging, record session details, battery information and other variables. It also gives you a user heat map, network statistics etc.

Developers or testers can simply upload their applications on BetaGlide. The platform automatically integrates the tool in the uploaded app, creating a modified apk which saves time. It allows developers to send mails to selected “beta” users, and once they download and start using the application, the developer gets the data and information through a dashboard.

The company is currently in beta mode and has over 30 customers and is a part of TLabs 4th batch which is a venture by Times Internet.

BugClipper is a tool that will make it easy for you to report bugs, highlight issues and share feedback with your team from inside your own app.

It is available in the form of a plug-n-play library that integrates with your app and provides a suite of tools to capture screenshots and highlight issues on the fly, record screencasts and send them to the developer directly.

BugClipper makes reporting bugs easy and fast and slashes the overall development time. The tool is currently available on iOS. An Android version will be launched soon.

You can get a 7 day free plan to try out BugClipper. A single install app license costs $49 and if you are an agency or a freelancer publishing multiple apps, you can get a 5 app install license at a discounted price of $189.

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bigMobilityConf attendees can sign up for a BugClipper license using the coupon code “bigmob”, which will get them a 100% discount and also get the library for free. This offer for only the first 100 downloads.