How Instagram optimizes Android performance

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Beautiful Performant Android UI

Company: Instagram · Jun 20, 2023
Platform: Android

Instagram crafts Android UIs that look great and run lightning-fast.

Instagram shares an open-source disk cache that’s simple and speedy.

Instagram splits their app and loads it lazily for better performance.

Instagram Engineering explains how background data prefetching decouples app usability from network availability while minimizing cellular data usage. The team built a centralized framework for Explore, Stories...

Instagram scaled fast to handle a million new users in just 12 hours.

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