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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...

Skeelo's engineering team achieved a 30% performance boost by rethinking one simple thing: when NOT to use await in Node.js.

Jamon Holmgren from Infinite Red just dropped a comprehensive guide that's going to change how you debug React Native apps. Flipper's out—but you're not losing any functionality.

Square just launched the successor to their Reader SDK after 6 years, and KIOS was among the first to build with it. Their integration story reveals what's actually possible when payment SDKs are built for deve...

Delivery Hero's Android team achieved 30% performance gains without writing a single line of new feature code. Here's how baseline profiles transformed their app.

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.

Drawing a Ribbon Background in Compose

Company: OkCupid · May 28, 2024
Platform: Android

Anton Begeima from OkCupid shows how to create eye-catching ribbon backgrounds in Jetpack Compose using custom Path drawing. No third-party libraries needed—just pure Canvas API magic.

Zalando powers 13 dynamic mobile pages without waiting for app store releases. Here's how they built a server-driven UI framework that ships changes same-day.

Emily Fujimoto from Thumbtack just closed the book on a 6-year migration journey. The final push to eliminate Java from their Android codebase revealed lessons every mobile team needs to hear.

What's New in Flutter 3.22

Company: Flutter Blog · May 14, 2024
Platform: Flutter

Kevin Chisholm just dropped Flutter 3.22, and the performance numbers are wild. WebAssembly cuts frame rendering time by 3x in worst-case scenarios, while a Lottie animation that took 64ms now renders nearly 10...

Illia Kucheriavyi from Revolut reveals how 120+ iOS engineers ship weekly releases across 5 apps while maintaining 150,000+ automated tests. Their secret? A mono-repo with 160 shared modules and build times tha...

Ayush Bagaria from PhonePe reveals how CPU profiling and thread optimization slashed chat load times by 30%. Most Android apps are sitting on similar performance gains.

Dream11 migrated 200 million users from native to React Native in 18 months. Their first production experiment? A 10% revenue drop that nearly killed the project.

Anne Lu from Airbnb reveals how her team built a 3D page-flipping animation that looks effortless but required solving novel iOS challenges. The Host Passport feature needed pixel-perfect timing across multiple...

Cheng Lin from Google's Flutter team tackles the elephant in the room: Flutter web apps are slow to load. Here's how to fix it.

AWS just rebuilt Amplify from the ground up, and this time everything runs on TypeScript. If you've bounced off Amplify before, this Gen 2 release might change your mind.

Reducing the Size of Cash App for iOS

Company: Cash App · May 1, 2024
Platform: iOS

Cash App cut their iOS app size in half in one year. Here's the playbook they used to get from 245 MB to 126 MB downloads.

Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) promises code sharing nirvana, but adoption remains surprisingly low. What's holding teams back?

Uber's mobile testing was broken. Engineers spent 30-40% of their time maintaining test scripts that broke with every UI change. So they built an AI that tests apps like a human would.

Jamon Holmgren from Infinite Red breaks down Microsoft's App Center shutdown and maps out the migration path React Native developers need to take before March 2025.

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