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Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan and team from Amazon AGI just solved a major headache for mobile AI: how do you fine-tune vision-language models on devices that can't handle backpropagation? Their answer challenges c...

Gojek's Android app was taking 14.35 seconds to launch. With 500+ modules and millions of lines of code, something had to change.

Unlock Native Power in Flutter Part 2

Company: Simform · Jan 5, 2026
Platform: Flutter / Android / iOS

Flutter developers: still treating native integration like a black box? You're leaving serious performance on the table.

Pavithra Chamod J from PickMe Engineering tackles a common Android performance trap: GIFs that look great but silently drain memory and tank your UI responsiveness.

Using List.contains() instead of Set.contains() in your Android app? You might be making it 900x slower than it needs to be.

A team just deleted thousands of Flutter files and went all-in on Kotlin Multiplatform. Here's why the physics of cross-platform development finally caught up with them.

Pavithra Chamod J from PickMe Engineering breaks down the biggest challenge in mobile dev: making location services work seamlessly across Android and iOS without draining batteries or violating privacy.

Thomas Ricouard spent only 2% of his time in Xcode last year while shipping more iOS code than ever. His secret? Treating AI agents as tireless coworkers, not autocomplete tools.

Unlock Native Power in Flutter Part 1

Company: Simform · Dec 31, 2025
Platform: Flutter / Android / iOS

Flutter's cross-platform magic hits a wall when you need native APIs. Here's how to bridge that gap without losing your mind.

Ever tried debugging a mobile app crash without knowing what the user actually did? You're flying blind.

JioHotstar pushed their Android app from 99.5% to 99.8% crash-free rate by hunting down invisible memory killers. Here's how they did it.

Chamod Lakmal from PickMe Engineering turned a 2,100-line ViewModel nightmare into 350 lines of clean, testable code. His team's test coverage jumped from 12% to 87%, and onboarding time dropped from 2 weeks to...

Chamod Lakmal from PickMe Engineering built a slider that users actually *feel*. Most custom sliders look good but feel dead—this one snaps, vibrates, and eliminates float drift with surgical precision.

Josh Yoes from Infinite Red declares 2025 as React Native's 'polishing era.' Seven releases, zero breaking changes in the final drop, and the New Architecture migration finally complete.

Tim Sneath reflects on Swift's explosive growth: from a simple blog post 10 years ago to 70+ repositories with hundreds of weekly contributors. The language now runs everywhere from Pebble watches to AWS Lambda...

Fahd Imtiaz from Google's Android team reveals a stark reality: tablet and foldable users spend 9-14x more on apps than phone-only users. The mobile-only era is officially over.

José Luis González, a JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer, reveals the production bugs that still plague mobile teams in 2025. One tiny mistake in exception handling can silently break your entire app's lifecycl...

Davyd Narbutovich from Callstack challenges a web development habit that React Native developers can skip entirely. Turns out, minifying JavaScript in your RN apps might be wasted effort.

The Android workgroup just dropped Swift 6.3 SDK nightly previews for Android, and several production apps with millions of downloads are already proving it works at scale.

Talabat rewrote their app serving millions of daily users across 8 countries without a big bang migration. Here's how their CTO and engineering team pulled it off with Flutter.

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