Table 7.

Key issues and recommendations for mHealth app stability issues

Key issues found	Recommendations
-users encounter bugs while analysing	- Developers need to proactively analyse user
or processing their mHealth data	reviews and addressing key reported bugs to
	ensure health dependent end users are not se-
	riously impacted
- Apps crashing/freezing when process-	- Ensuring the existence of enough computa-
ing and mining specific mHealth tasks	tional power based on the users data size; test-
	ing practices need to include range of realistic
	mHealth app user datasets and loadings
- Some mHealth functionalities get	- mHealth users become dependent on apps for
buggy only after developer updates	health needs and hence all functionalities need
	stringent testing across multiple devices before
	releasing updates