Why Flutter is Ready to Challenge Native Performance
For years, the biggest question mark over cross-platform frameworks like Flutter has been simple: Can it truly feel native?
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HelloFresh’s Brownfield Leap: One App to Feed Them All!
The Hello Fresh rewrite for a full React Native App
🐦Flutter Performance Secrets: That Make Your App Fly!🚀
When I first dipped my toes into the exciting world of Flutter, I was immediately captivated by its ability to create beautiful UIs. My apps looked stunning, but beneath the glossy surface..
Optimize your app battery using Android vitals wake lock metric
Explains new Android Vitals wake-lock signal, how to detect & fix excessive partial wake locks to reduce battery drain.
Accelerating our Android apps with Baseline Profiles
How Meta uses Baseline Profiles to speed cold start, scrolling, and navigation; reports up to 40% improvements.
You might be using Modifier.fillMaxSize() wrong (!)
Shows how careless sizing/layout choices degrade performance; patterns for efficient Compose layouts.
Flutter Performance Secrets: Speed Up Your App Without Changing a Single API
we’ll explore how to optimize your Flutter app’s speed without making complex changes to your backend or business logic.
Migrating to React Native's New Architecture
Shopify successfully migrated two of its largest apps, Shopify Mobile and Shopify Point of Sale (POS) to React Native's New Architecture while maintaining weekly releases and serving millions of merchants. This
Top 5 mistakes that kill Compose performance
Practical pitfalls (e.g., recomposition triggers, layouts) and fixes to keep Compose UIs smooth.
Flow Layouts in Compose
Tradeoffs & best practices for FlowRow/FlowColumn; tips to keep layouts performant.
The evolution of native engineering at Tripadvisor: Part 2
In the first post in this series Benoit Sarrazin discussed the adoption of The Composable Architecture in our iOS app. He covered the reasons for this change, the benefits it brought, and the challenges we faced.
Recomposition Is Not a Bug — You Are
Opinionated guide to avoiding unnecessary recomposition; derivedStateOf, keys, etc.
Top 10 Compose Mistakes in Large-Scale Apps
Enterprise Compose pitfalls (state hoisting, keys, compiler reports) with fixes.
From Biology to Code: How Android’s Zygote Enables Fast and Efficient App Launching
Clear deep-dive on Zygote preload/fork pipeline and its startup/perf impact.
Cancellable Flows in Kotlin Coroutines: The Complete Guide
Flow cancellation patterns (timeout, takeWhile, cancellable, first) & perf notes.
Our Buildkite Brings All the Devs to the Yard: (Re)Building Reddit Mobile CI in 2025
Reddit Mobile CI overhaul: up to 50% faster build times, improved stability and developer sentiment; details on infra choices and trade-offs. (Reddit)
What’s new in the Jetpack Compose August ’25 release
Compose 1.9: improved list prefetching & cache window APIs, visibility callbacks—noticeable scroll/UI performance gains.
Find & fix memory leaks in Kotlin Coroutines
Leak patterns with structured concurrency & scopes; debugging strategies and tools.
Improve initial loading state in Compose
Startup/loading UX patterns that avoid jank and wasted work while the first screen initializes.
Build better apps using Perfetto and Artemis
How to set up Perfetto + Artemis for app tracing; turning traces into actionable dashboards.