# Can RUM be used with mobile apps

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-rum-be-used-with-mobile-apps/300801>\
**Category:** User Experience\
**Created:** [March 28, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-rum-be-used-with-mobile-apps/300801 "2022-03-28T05:59:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![hamdyahmed1984](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9dc877/32.png) [@hamdyahmed1984](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hamdyahmed1984)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-rum-be-used-with-mobile-apps/300801/1 "2022-03-28T05:59:24Z")

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Can RUM be used with mobile apps (android and IOS)?  
If yes, how and if no, what is the alternative?

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**Author:** ![emilioalvap](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/emilioalvap/32/99310_2.png) [@emilioalvap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emilioalvap)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-rum-be-used-with-mobile-apps/300801/2 "2022-03-30T09:18:08Z")

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Hello,

Thank you very much for your interest in RUM.

The main focus of RUM is to be executed inside a browser context, as it relies on this context's events and actions to structure and ship off data to ES. While it _might_ be technically possible to leverage RUM inside native apps, it's not a use case that we support.

There're are other alternatives for native apps:

- There's an [iOS agent](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/swift/current/index.html) under development at the moment.
- For Android, there's no specific agent but it should be possible to leverage [OpenTelemetry Java integration](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/get-started/current/open-telemetry-elastic.html) to manually instrument apps.

Cheers,  
Emilio.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-rum-be-used-with-mobile-apps/300801/3 "2022-04-27T09:18:48Z")

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