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Arlind Hajredinaj from SoundCloud reveals how a beautiful UI redesign accidentally tanked their image loading performance. The fix? A deep dive into Android optimization that every mobile team should read.

Mobile Developer Experience at Slack

Company: Slack · Oct 12, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Slack's 8-person Mobile DevXp team saved $240K annually just by improving PR notifications. Most companies are massively underinvesting in developer experience.

Nina from Signal just announced they're killing a feature that's been in the Android app since before Signal even existed. After nearly a decade of supporting plaintext SMS alongside encrypted messages, they're...

Pinterest's API team just freed up 4.5GB of memory per host with a clever database swap. The result? Fewer servers, happier users, and a masterclass in optimization.

Juan Ignacio Unzurrunzaga from Mercado Libre's team reveals how they fixed a critical accessibility gap that affected millions of users: price components that screen readers couldn't interpret correctly.

Juan Ignacio Unzurrunzaga from Mercado Libre reveals how a simple price component became a masterclass in Android accessibility. Their team discovered screen readers were announcing dollars instead of pesos, re...

Lessons Building Android Widgets

Company: Shopify · Sep 22, 2022
Platform: Android

Matt Bowen and the Shopify team discovered their Android widgets were making up to 5 unnecessary network calls per update cycle. Their solution? A clever 60-second cache that transformed widget performance.

Your app crashes in production and you have no idea why. Callstack breaks down the monitoring strategies that catch issues before your users do.

Turo's Android team slashed their app startup time by 77%. Here's how they turned a sluggish launch into a lightning-fast experience.

Consent Matters

Company: Swiggy · Sep 20, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Swiggy's Android team faced a UX dilemma: auto-reading OTPs felt magical to some users, creepy to others. How do you balance convenience with transparency?

Ahmed Alnaami from AirAsia reveals how they solved a debugging nightmare: tracking network traffic across Native, React Native, and WebViews in one super app.

Ishan Khanna from Tinder shares a hard-earned lesson: that shiny third-party SDK could be a ticking time bomb for your app. Here's the framework his team uses to avoid disaster.

Productionizing Envoy Mobile at Lyft

Company: Lyft · Sep 13, 2022
Platform: Android / iOS

JP Simard from Lyft reveals how they replaced URLSession and OkHttp across all their mobile apps with a single networking library—and the results weren't what anyone expected.

Android Launch Performance

Company: Strava · Sep 13, 2022
Platform: Android

Strava's Android team cut app launch time in half by treating performance optimization like athletic training: consistent measurement, strategic improvements, and relentless focus on efficiency.

OkCredit found a way to A/B test UI copy without shipping new app versions. The results? A 1.7% lift in user activation from changing just two words.

Doni Winata from Traveloka's Android Infra team reveals how his team automated build benchmarking to catch performance regressions before they hit production. For projects with 300+ modules and 15-20 minute bui...

Cash App open sourced Molecule, a library that lets you write reactive code as simple if/else statements. No more complex RxJava chains.

TikTok slashed app startup time by 45% and reduced video lag by 27%. Here's how they did it using Android's native toolchain.

Mehmet Gür from Getir tackles a common Android pain point: uploading files to S3 with real-time progress tracking. His solution avoids the MultipartBody pitfalls that trip up most developers.

OkCredit ran a fascinating A/B test: Jetpack Compose vs XML layouts in production. The results surprised them—and reveal what most teams miss about Compose performance.

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