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Google's Android team just dropped a performance framework that meets you where you are. Whether you're a solo dev or leading a performance team, there's a clear path forward.

Karthi from Mercari's Cross Border team reveals why they chose native Android over Flutter and React Native for their global marketplace launch. The decision wasn't about theory, it was about leveraging 10M+ do...

Ben Weiss from Google shares how Reddit achieved 40% faster cold startup and boosted Play Store ratings in under 2 weeks. The secret? Finally enabling R8 optimizer's full potential.

React Native just unlocked a new platform: Meta's Horizon Store for VR apps. Callstack shows how to take your existing mobile codebase into virtual reality with minimal friction.

Doist's Android team faced a brutal reality: their UI test suite was so flaky that only 50% of runs passed on the first try. PRs sat idle for hours waiting for reruns.

Karthi from Mercari's Android team reveals why they ditched cross-platform frameworks for their global marketplace launch. The decision wasn't about native vs. hybrid ideology, it was about leveraging 10M+ down...

Jakub Mroz from Software Mansion just shipped a fully local RAG pipeline in React Native. No cloud APIs, no data leaks, just on-device AI that actually works.

For years, video playback was the one piece of Android UI that refused to go fully declarative. That changed when Google shipped Media3's Compose UI module.

Deeper Performance Considerations

Company: Google · Nov 19, 2025
Platform: Android

Ben Weiss, Breana Tate, and Jossi Wolf from Google just dropped a performance goldmine: Trello cut startup time by 25%, and Meta saw improvements up to 40%. All from one optimization technique most teams haven'...

Android VPAT journey

Company: Slack · Nov 19, 2025
Platform: Android

Slack's Android team tackled a VPAT accessibility audit and found critical gaps that affected screen reader users. Here's what they fixed and why it matters for your mobile app.

Gunnar Torfi shares how a single developer maintained 40+ mobile screens AND a full web app by merging them into one universal codebase. No big rewrite required.

Cash Android Moves to Metro

Company: Cash App · Nov 18, 2025
Platform: Android

Egor Andreevich just shipped a DI framework migration across 1,500 modules serving tens of millions of users. The build speed improvements? Nearly 60% faster incremental builds.

Abdallah W Shaban from Google's Flutter team just dropped GenUI SDK—a way to let AI generate entire interactive UIs on the fly, not just text responses. Think magazine-style layouts that adapt to each user, bui...

Ben Weiss from Google reveals the single most impactful, low-effort change you can make to Android app performance. Reddit saw 40% faster cold startup and Disney+ cut ANRs by 25% with one configuration tweak.

Dawid Matyjasik from Software Mansion proves you don't need to rebuild your entire native app to adopt React Native. His integrated brownfield approach lets you modernize production apps one feature at a time, ...

Chris Ellsworth, Cosmin Stejerean, and Hassene Tmar from Meta reveal how Instagram became the first Meta app to support Dolby Vision. The catch? Their initial A/B test showed people watched LESS video with the ...

Chris Ellsworth, Cosmin Stejerean, and Hassene Tmar from Meta reveal how Instagram became the first Meta app to support Dolby Vision. The catch? Their initial A/B test showed people watched LESS video with the ...

Google is dedicating an entire week to helping Android developers ship faster apps. If performance has been on your backlog, this is your moment.

Swift is coming to microcontrollers, and the latest 6.3 release is making it production-ready. Embedded Swift now handles everything from memory-mapped I/O to proper debugging on resource-constrained hardware.

Your Jetpack Compose app might be recomposing 10X more than it needs to. The culprit? Stability.

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