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Flutter or KMM? If you're building cross-platform mobile apps in 2024, this question is keeping a lot of engineering leaders up at night.

Very Good Ventures took the stage at Google Cloud Next 2024 to show how Flutter and Gemini are changing the game development playbook. Literally.

Caeser Bakabulindi from AirAsia reveals how a complete app rewrite slashed launch time by 35% and cut memory usage by 120MB. The secret? Jetpack Compose and a bold commitment to building a product, not just fea...

Introducing Trio | Part II

Company: Airbnb · Apr 4, 2024
Platform: Android

Airbnb's Android team just solved one of mobile architecture's hardest problems: navigation in massive, modularized apps. Their solution? Store navigation state right in the ViewModel.

Swift just jumped from iOS apps to microcontrollers. The Swift team launched example projects showing how to write firmware for ARM and RISC-V chips using a new experimental compilation mode.

Lyft built Live Activities that update millions of users per week—but iOS sandboxing, 4KB payload limits, and image rendering nearly killed the project.

Introducing Trio | Part I

Company: Airbnb · Mar 28, 2024
Platform: Android

Airbnb just open-sourced the architecture powering a significant portion of their Android app. After 2+ years of development, Trio is their answer to Fragment-based pain points.

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

Building Flutter auth? The choice between Auth0's SDK and direct API isn't just about convenience. It's about whether you need speed or surgical control over your authentication flow.

Dan Kelly explores how incident.io shipped a production mobile app in months without hiring a single mobile engineer. Their secret? Leaning hard into Expo's 'golden path.'

Swift Performance Benchmarks

Company: Swift.org Blog · Mar 20, 2024
Platform: iOS / Desktop

Joakim Hassila from Ordo One built a performance benchmarking tool that major Swift projects like Foundation, SwiftNIO, and SwiftPM are now using. If you're shipping Swift code without performance tests, you're...

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.

Ayush Bagaria from PhonePe set out to cut chat latency by 50% in their P2P payment flow. The journey taught some expensive lessons about the gap between POC results and production reality.

Performance testing in React Native often feels reactive and chaotic. Callstack's engineering team shows how borrowing a Six Sigma methodology can turn it into a repeatable, data-driven process.

Performance Measurement for Native Apps

Company: Walmart · Mar 8, 2024
Platform: Android / iOS

Supriyo Mondal from Walmart reveals how they shaved 500-600ms off view rendering times by changing a single boolean flag. Sometimes the biggest performance wins come from the smallest tweaks.

Sima Nerush from Apple's SwiftUI team just made working with Swift parameter packs dramatically simpler. What used to require error-throwing workarounds now fits in a clean for-in loop.

Shopify's mobile app was getting slower after migrating to React Native. So they spent a year making it blazingly fast again.

Arvel Alana from IDN Engineering breaks down how to add real-time features to Android apps without the WebSocket headaches. AWS AppSync handles the heavy lifting while you focus on the user experience.

Duolingo catches critical bugs before users ever see them. Their secret? 70% of employees actively use internal builds daily.

Pooja Krishna from Walmart Global Tech reveals why your iOS app's slow page loads are costing you users. The target? Under 2 seconds from tap to interactive content.

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