Apps relative to crypto are very recent.
We wanted to study those Apps to make an smart article about technical stacks & good practices.

What are the good things?

What are the bad things in those about?

What are the important points if you want to start to build a new App?

To study those questions we have decided to take the most trendy applications and to compare them on technical aspects

This article is the second of the serie :

TLDR;

  • There is native Apps and Apps developed using a cross plateform solutions.
  • All Apps can provide a very rich User Experience and extends the system using App Extensions or interact with other Apps to improve the journey of a User.
  • The applications are characterized by the number of interactions with the system and the possible interactions with other Apps.
  • The packaging is really different depending on the technology of the application and this leads to resources not optimized and some security weaknesses.

App Resources

In this section, we check to important metrics about the packaging of the App.

  • How are managed the images? package in Assets? to be optimized by Apple on the App installation, or not?
  • How is configured the language support? Permissions are well localized? Is there missing values?
App AppScore Details  
CoinMarketCap 5.0
  • ✅ 21 languages
  • ❌ Some missing translations detected
  • ✅ Images packaged in assets
 
MetaMask - Blockchain Wallet 4.40
  • ✅ 40 languages
  • ✅ Plurals management
  • ✅ Images packaged in assets
 
Coinbase: Buy Bitcoin & Ether 4.40
  • ✅ 18 languages
  • ❌ images not optimized in assets
  • ❌ @1x/2x/@3x
  • ❌ image scales missing
 
FTX (anciennement Blockfolio) 4.40
  • ✅ 18 languages
  • ❌ images not optimized in assets
  • ❌ @1x/2x/@3x
  • ❌ image scales missing
 
ZenGo: Crypto & Bitcoin Wallet 3.80
  • ❌ 1 language
  • ❌ images not optimized in assets
  • ❌ @1x/2x/@3x
 
eToro Money 3.80
  • ❌ no official language declared (but custom in App)
  • ❌ images not optimized in assets
  • ❌ @1x/2x/@3x
 
Binance: Buy Bitcoin & Crypto 3.20
  • ✅ 9 languages
  • ❌ Localized strings Custom Flutter (JSON file)
  • ✅ Images packaged in assets
 
Crypto.com - Buy Bitcoin, ETH 3.20
  • ✅ 20 languages
  • ❌ Some missing translations detected
  • ✅ Images packaged in assets