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Enes İğneci from Teknasyon Engineering breaks down why your Android app might be bloated, slow, and vulnerable. The fix? Two powerful code optimization tools most developers underutilize.

Duolingo's engineers were stuck waiting 50 minutes for every CI build. That's hundreds of hours wasted every week across the team.

Harris Robin from Infinite Red tackles the Microsoft CodePush sunset head-on with a comprehensive guide to migrating bare React Native apps to EAS Updates—complete with multi-flavor support and full CI/CD autom...

Android SDK Release Update

Company: Google · Oct 31, 2024
Platform: Android

Matthew McCullough just dropped a bombshell: Android is ditching its annual release cycle. If you're building for Android, your entire 2025 planning timeline just changed.

GitHub's iOS team just cut their CI testing time by 60%. Here's how they did it with Apple Silicon runners and some smart architectural changes.

alexxozo from Glovo's engineering team discovered that a single line of code change slashed their build time by 30%. The culprit? Java's type inference struggling with large Map definitions.

React Native 0.73 just dropped with a game-changing shift: the team is finally killing off Flipper and the legacy bridge. This is the biggest architectural pivot since the New Architecture announcement.

Yaroslav T from Revolut reveals how managing translations for 6 apps across 330 modules and 33 languages evolved from a simple library to a custom Gradle plugin. The journey took 7 years and countless iteration...

Rolgalan from Glovo's Mobile Platform team reveals how they slashed Android build times through hardware and JVM tuning. Most teams are leaving massive performance gains on the table by ignoring these fundament...

Rolgalan from Glovo cut Android build times by 75%—from 1 hour down to 15 minutes. Here's how they did it, and why most teams are leaving massive performance gains on the table.

Cash App's monolith CI builds were taking 30 minutes at p50. Developers were stuck waiting through multiple build cycles just to get a green merge.

Paul Hundal and Pablo Baxter from Square reveal how they slashed CI analysis time by 80% on a monorepo with 5,000+ modules. Their secret? Getting creative with Gradle's internals.

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.

React Native 0.72 just dropped with the two most requested Metro features that developers have been waiting years for. Monorepo teams and pnpm users, this one's for you.

React Native just closed a major compatibility gap with the JavaScript ecosystem. Metro now supports Package Exports, unlocking 16,600+ npm packages that were previously broken or inaccessible.

Instagram engineers were losing hours every day waiting for code to compile. So they brought React Native's ⌘R instant refresh experience to native iOS.

Premise's mobile team caught a sneaky 3x build time regression that only showed up in CI. Here's how they hunted it down using Gradle Enterprise.

Migrating to Swift Package Manager

Company: Just Eat · Jan 25, 2023
Platform: iOS

Victor Sarda from Just Eat Takeaway reveals how his team migrated a massive modularized iOS codebase from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager without blocking a single developer. The secret? Supporting both depe...

Gradle Incremental Test Runner

Company: Swiggy · Jan 24, 2023
Platform: Android

Swiggy's Android team was stuck in a painful cycle: rebasing PRs, waiting hours for full test suites to run, then doing it all over again. One frustrated engineer decided to fix it over a weekend.

Roger Hu from Square reveals how Android Studio Electric Eel slashed their sync times by 60%. For a team managing 3,000+ Gradle subprojects, that's not just faster—it's 1,600 hours of developer time saved annua...

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