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Brian Terczynski from Thumbtack reveals how they ditched emulators entirely for their 1,500+ screenshot tests. The result? Tests that run at unit test speed and actually gate code merges.

Thumbtack's Journey to Swift 6

Company: Thumbtack · Aug 12, 2025
Platform: iOS

Scott Southerland from Thumbtack just shared what most iOS teams won't tell you: migrating to Swift 6 took 16+ months and broke their entire test suite. Here's the battle-tested playbook they wish they'd had.

Brian Terczynski from Thumbtack tracked down a brutal Android OOM bug that was crashing apps at startup—and the culprit wasn't a memory leak. It was hiding in plain sight: their SQLite queries.

Swift Actor in Unit Tests

Company: Thumbtack · Jul 3, 2024
Platform: iOS

Abdul Moiz from Thumbtack reveals how Swift 6's concurrency checks broke their entire test suite. Their solution? A clever protocol-based pattern that makes actors mockable without sacrificing thread safety.

Emily Fujimoto from Thumbtack just closed the book on a 6-year migration journey. The final push to eliminate Java from their Android codebase revealed lessons every mobile team needs to hear.

Jesse Stauffer from Thumbtack built a stunning 3D carousel in SwiftUI—then convinced his team NOT to ship it. Here's why that prototype was still worth every line of code.

Transitioning to SwiftUI

Company: Thumbtack · Aug 16, 2023
Platform: iOS

Daniel Roth from Thumbtack rebuilt their entire iOS component library from scratch in SwiftUI. The result? Faster builds, fewer bugs, and a development experience that finally lives up to the hype.

Migrating to Apollo 1.0 for iOS

Company: Thumbtack · Jul 12, 2023
Platform: iOS

Scott Southerland from Thumbtack reveals how their iOS app hit a breaking point: 8-minute builds, mysterious crashes, and 80,000-line auto-generated files that finally stopped compiling altogether.

Dominic Zirbel from Thumbtack reveals how they modernized 300+ Android screens without a complete rewrite. Their new framework cut code by 30% while maintaining production stability.

Introducing Swift RunOnce

Company: Thumbtack · Dec 22, 2021
Platform: iOS

Daniel Roth from Thumbtack's iOS team just solved a problem every Swift developer has faced: ensuring code runs exactly once without the brittle boolean flags that break at scale.

Mallika Potter and Kevin Beaulieu from Thumbtack reveal how they open-sourced their entire native design system—and the surprising technical challenges they had to solve first.

Brian Terczynski from Thumbtack reveals how his team eliminated weekly manual QA sessions that were draining engineering time. Their solution? A fully automated integration testing pipeline that catches bugs be...

Emily Fujimoto from Thumbtack reveals how her team caught critical layout bugs that traditional testing completely missed. The solution? Screenshot tests that verify what your UI actually looks like, not just w...

Building A Native Design System For iOS

Company: Thumbtack · Feb 28, 2020
Platform: iOS

Kevin Beaulieu from Thumbtack reveals how they built an iOS design system that balances strict consistency with real-world flexibility. The secret? Making standard usage effortless while keeping customization p...

Brian Terczynski from Thumbtack reveals how their Android team solved a critical problem: developers couldn't see which specific lines in their code changes lacked test coverage. The solution? Two custom report...

Transitioning to Android

Company: Thumbtack · Aug 5, 2019
Platform: Android

Bianca Gandolfo spent 7 years mastering JavaScript—then faced an identity crisis when asked to switch to Android. Her internal debate reveals a tension every specialist faces: go deeper or go broader?

Android Development with GraphQL

Company: Thumbtack · Feb 21, 2019
Platform: Android

Efe Karasabun from Thumbtack reveals how GraphQL solved their biggest mobile API headaches. No more over-fetching data or coordinating breaking changes across teams.

Android Instant Apps at Thumbtack

Company: Thumbtack · Jul 25, 2017
Platform: Android

Francis Kam from Thumbtack reveals how they partnered with Google pre-launch to build one of the first Android Instant Apps. The results? Instant app messages now equal their full installed app.

Felipe Cypriano from Thumbtack reveals how migrating iOS apps to frameworks nearly derailed their Swift adoption—until they discovered a clever workaround for binary dependencies.

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