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It's new years eve and this is perhaps the last day I am offering My Day To-Do for free on the app store. I started offering My Day To-Do for free as a holiday offer from 24th of Dec, 2016 to 1st of January 2017. Since then I have seen a significant spike in downloads with a majority of the downloads coming from China. This is awesome, as unlike it's free sibling My Day To-Do Lite , My Day To-Do pro version hasn't seen that many downloads, so this is a great way to get it to a wider audience. Why did I offer my app for free? App Analytics in iTunesConnect told me that there were a number of "product page views" for My Day To-Do on the App Store, so I realised that one of the obstacles for people from downloading the app could be the $4.49aud price tag. Hence I decided to remove that obstacle for some time and in doing so I was hoping to get some user feedback or to get people to leave a review on the App Store. What do I think contributed to the download...

I am writing this blog post as I wait for my flight back home at the Dubai International airport. I am travelling back home from a short holiday to my parents place and this post is going to be about a little something about app testing that I discovered during my holiday.  p.s. It's 12am, right now, so please excuse any grammatical mistakes in this post.  What Did I discover? I grew up in a place with little or no internet connectivity and hence when I was working on my app, My Day To-Do , I made sure that the app  works offline i.e. it doesn't require an internet connection to at least use all it's core features. During development I tested this extensively by switching off Wi-Fi, turning the mobile data off and testing the app's core functionality. All that worked as expected and I had made sure I released an app that would work offline, however recently I realised that there was one more test that I had to do which I didn't. Next time, a similar use ...