To add monitoring to a mobile app, you must embed Aternity's monitoring into the app itself, before it is encrypted. This automatically starts reporting a wealth of performance and usage data by default. This article offers an introduction to integrating Aternity's monitoring functionality in a mobile app.

A monitored mobile app is a regular iOS or Android app which has Aternity's monitoring functionality inside, enabling it to report performance statistics like launch times, errors, crashes, network traffic, and also custom activities performance, and some surrounding data on the underlying mobile device and user.

You can embed monitoring in a mobile app in any of the following ways:

• The Aternity iOS Wrapper embeds monitoring in iOS apps without requiring access to the source code.

• The Aternity Android Wrapper embeds monitoring in Android apps without requiring access to the source code.

• The Aternity iOS Mobile SDK embeds monitoring in iOS apps, and requires access to the app's source code. It also enables more monitoring functionality through targeted API calls.

• The Aternity Android Mobile SDK embeds monitoring in Android apps, and requires access to the source code. It also enables more monitoring functionality through targeted API calls.

For more information on adding your app to Aternity to view the performance of custom activities, see Add a Monitored Mobile App as a Managed App to Monitor Custom Activities.

The following table offers a summary of the considerations to choose the best way to embed monitoring in your app.