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Testing Android UI Performance

Company: Glance · May 18, 2023
Platform: Android

Glance tests Android UI to keep it smooth and responsive for users.

Pepperfry uses Java multi-threading to make API calls lightning-fast.

Robinhood’s server-driven UI lets frontend devs make big changes, fast.

Introduces Cork, a custom UI framework designed to improve Android development efficiency and performance.

Flexible Continuous Integration for iOS

Company: Airbnb · May 10, 2023
Platform: iOS

Airbnb migrated their iOS CI from physical Macs to AWS EC2 Mac instances, using Packer for AMI creation and Terraform for infrastructure-as-code. The new system enables daily instance rotation, flexible Xcode v...

For example we were trying to define and enforce budget for: - Binary size added per feature - Crashes/ANRs per feature - Where should we increase QA automation? - Feature ownership - More safety nets, mon...

McDonald's shares their approach and best practices for developing mobile applications across multiple platforms.

Instagram shares an open-source disk cache that’s simple and speedy.

Technical guide on modernizing Android UI architecture by migrating from XML layouts to Jetpack Compose.

Swiggy trimmed Android cold start time by 53% with smart fixes.

Photo Picker API Across Android Versions

Company: Google · Apr 24, 2023
Platform: Android

Introduces the Photo Picker API and its availability across different Android versions.

Explains implementation of user interaction tracking and monitoring in Jetpack Compose applications.

See how Uber tracks iOS app startup times, tackling cold starts and iOS 15’s pre-warming quirks with grit and clever fixes.

Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta

Company: Meta · Apr 11, 2023
Platform: iOS / Android

Meta adopts xHE-AAC to pump up audio quality across their apps.

AirAsia MOVE's engineering team describes how they built the Favourites feature for their superapp, covering backend architecture with Google Cloud Run, Firestore, Redis cache-aside strategy, and Pub/Sub for ev...

Premise tracks Jetpack Compose rendering to keep it fast and fluid.

Load Testing for 2022 Spotify Wrapped

Company: Spotify · Mar 31, 2023
Platform: iOS / Android

Each year, when Wrapped goes live, the Spotify team is faced with a “thundering herd problem”. Millions of people, all over the world and across all time zones, start watching their data stories on-platform

Pepperfry boosts Android app launch speed with hands-on tweaks.

Swiggy uses the In-App Update API to push updates seamlessly.

Explains how Mercari rebuilt its app with Jetpack Compose to reduce code complexity and improve maintainability.

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