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Fauzi Mubarok from IDN Engineering wraps up his floating view series with the polish that separates good Android UIs from great ones. That magnetic snap-to-edge effect you see in TikTok and Shopee? Here's how t...

Fauzi Mubarok from IDN Engineering breaks down how to build those addictive floating reward bubbles you see in TikTok and Shopee. Turns out, creating smooth overlay views in Android requires some clever system-...

Jetpack Compose Performance

Company: Trendyol · Nov 6, 2024
Platform: Android

Hasan Kuşçu from Trendyol reveals why your Jetpack Compose app might be recomposing way more than it should. The culprit? Compose treats most classes as unstable by default.

Your mobile app's first impression isn't just important. It's everything. The Fullstory Team breaks down why most teams are optimizing blind, relying on assumptions instead of actual user behavior data.

Nick Butcher and Florina Muntenescu from Google reveal how adidas CONFIRMED slashed feature development time by 30% with a single technology shift. The results speak for themselves: happier users, fewer crashes...

Meta serves trillions of image downloads daily. Now Instagram and Threads are pushing the boundaries of mobile photo quality with HDR support.

Etsy's Android listing screen had 4,000+ lines of code in a single file, single-digit test coverage, and 200 experiments running. Something had to give.

Optimising the Swiggy Restaurant App

Company: Swiggy · Dec 19, 2023
Platform: iOS / Android

Swiggy's restaurant app was crashing under load. Their React Native app couldn't handle more than 100 orders on budget devices, and they needed to scale 10x.

Zoey Fan from Google's Flutter team just dropped a major update to their Casual Games Toolkit—and it's packed with templates that could save you weeks of setup time. If you've been curious about Flutter for gam...

Instagram DMs handle millions of messages per second. How do they make every send feel instant, even when your network drops mid-tap?

Swiggy discovered customers were anxiously checking their order tracking screen multiple times during the 20-45 minute delivery window. Their solution? Let users track orders while doing literally anything else...

Instagram cut their Android app startup time in half and reduced APK size by 50%. Here's how they did it.

Making Swiggy Buttery Smooth

Company: Swiggy · Aug 15, 2023
Platform: iOS / Android

Swiggy's iOS team cut their app launch time in half and reduced app size by 8MB. Here's how they did it.

Instagram's Android team faced a brutal problem: complex captions with emojis and links were causing 50ms UI thread blocks, making scrolling feel janky even on flagship devices.

Bringing HDR video to Reels

Company: Meta · Jul 17, 2023
Platform: iOS / Android

Meta just solved a problem most users never notice: making HDR video look great on billions of devices with wildly different capabilities.

Skeelo's Android app was freezing on users. The culprit? SharedPreferences blocking the main thread and triggering ANR errors.

Cash App just open-sourced Redwood, their answer to the multiplatform UI problem. Unlike other solutions, it renders with native UI toolkits instead of recreating them.

Beautiful Performant Android UI

Company: Instagram · Jun 20, 2023
Platform: Android

Instagram built a full-screen video viewer that needed to feel buttery smooth on every Android device. Here's how they made animations delightful without killing performance.

Testing Android UI Performance Part 2

Company: Glance · Jun 1, 2023
Platform: Android

You found the jank in your Android app. Now what? Most teams stop at identifying the problem—but that's only half the battle.

Testing Android UI Performance

Company: Glance · May 18, 2023
Platform: Android

Glance's engineering team serves 100M+ users where visual experience is everything. When UI performance drops, users notice immediately—and they leave.

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