Mobile Application Testing Settings

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Overview

Manage your uploaded mobile applications and your parallelization settings on the Synthetic Monitoring & Continuous Testing Settings page.

Create an application

To add a mobile application, navigate to the Mobile Applications List tab and click + Create Application.

Select Android as the OS for your mobile application.
Name your mobile application.
Add env tags as well as additional tags to your mobile application. You can use these tags to quickly filter through your mobile app tests on the Synthetic Monitoring & Continuous Testing page.
Optionally, enter a description for your mobile application.
Upload an .apk file.
Enter a name for the version of your mobile application. Optionally, select Mark this version as latest.
Click Create Application.

Select iOS as the OS for your mobile application.
Name your mobile application.
Add env tags as well as additional tags to your mobile application. You can use these tags to quickly filter through your mobile app tests on the Synthetic Monitoring & Continuous Testing page.
Optionally, enter a description for your mobile application.
Upload an .ipa file.
Enter a name for the version of your mobile application. Optionally, select Mark this version as latest.
Click Create Application.

To edit or delete a mobile application, hover over a mobile application in the Mobile Applications List and click on the respective icon.

Note: Mobile Application Testing does not provide full support for Flutter applications.

Manage application versions

Clicking on a mobile application in the Mobile Applications List displays existing versions of the application. Hover over a version and click the + icon to create a mobile app test with the selected mobile application’s version.

To edit or delete a version of a mobile application, hover over a version in the mobile application and click on the respective icon.

Add a version

To add a version of an existing mobile application:

Hover over the + icon in a mobile application in the Mobile Applications List and click Add new version.
Upload an .apk or .ipa file.
Enter a version name.
Optionally, select Mark this version as latest.
Click Add Version.

Add a new version of a mobile application

Customize your parallelization

For more information about parallelizing your Synthetic tests, see Continuous Testing Settings.

Permissions

By default, only users with the Datadog Admin and Datadog Standard roles can access the Synthetic Monitoring Applications List page. To get access to the Applications List page, upgrade your user to one of those two default roles.

If you are using the custom role feature, add your user to any custom role that includes synthetics_read and synthetics_write permissions.