The Best Reads on Mobile App Performance
How top companies optimize their apps for the best customer experience.
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Deeper dive into Spotify's mobile release tooling/process to catch issues before rollout; focuses on reliability & safe deploys at scale. Covers the Release Manager Dashboard (a Backstage plugin), backend optim...
Instacart's Caper team shares their four-phase strategy for migrating their smart cart Android app from Fragments and XML layouts to Jetpack Compose. AI coding assistants accelerated the refactoring by 5-7x, sa...
Grab achieved 98% monthly active adoption of Cursor among its engineers, with a 50% suggestion acceptance rate that surpasses the industry average of 30%. The article details how Grab integrated Cursor into its...
The hidden cost of LEFT JOINs in GRDB..Deep-dive into fixing iOS sluggishness.
Rahul Ravikumar explores how Kotlin's null-safety intrinsic checks create unnecessary runtime overhead on Android. The article explains how R8 in Android Gradle Plugin 9.0 optimizes these checks by replacing ve...
A hands-on comparison of building the same bill-splitting app (WeSplit) in SwiftUI (75 lines), Flutter (238 lines), and Kotlin Multiplatform (281 lines), revealing real differences in code complexity, state man...
Mercari introduces NavEntryScope to improve scoping in Android Hilt, enhancing stability and modularization in navigation.
A comprehensive guide to improving App Performance for Mobile Apps
Platform Views + performance considerations (hybrid composition, frame lag) + testing guidance.
Advanced optimization techniques and best practices for using HashMap and Set in Kotlin for improved app performance.
An in-depth account of migrating from Flutter to Kotlin Multiplatform for an enterprise IoT app, covering performance bottlenecks with Flutter's platform channels for Bluetooth hardware integration, KMP's zero-...
Flutter ↔ native integration via channels; includes performance-related motivation (heavy computations, etc.).
How Grab's AutoTrack SDK is used to revolutionize session tracking and troubleshooting by providing complete user journey data.
JioHotstar's engineering team shares how they improved their Android app's Crash Free User Rate from 99.5% to 99.8% by systematically identifying and fixing Out Of Memory crashes through memory profiling, third...
Meta describes how they design secure-by-default mobile frameworks that wrap unsafe Android APIs like intent launching, and how they leverage generative AI (Llama) to automate the migration of large codebases t...
JioHotstar's iOS team shares their journey automating performance regression testing, exploring xctrace-based E2E profiling and XCTMetric performance tests for detecting hitches and memory leaks. They built a c...
Comprehensive playbook for resilient offline UX: local caching, sync, conflict handling
Flutter API caching patterns (headers + Dio caching) to improve latency/UX and reduce network usage.
Improving Android build performance through modularization using the Core/Core-Impl pattern.
Details the new excessive partial wake locks metric in Android Vitals to help developers improve battery performance.