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16% of the world's population has a disability. Yet most Flutter apps ship without basic accessibility features that could serve 1.3 billion people.

Refining Compose API for Design Systems

Company: Bumble · Feb 21, 2024
Platform: Android

Yury from Bumble Tech tackles a problem every Android team faces: how do you build design system components that are both easy to use and flexible enough for edge cases?

Sharing Flutter's 2024 Roadmap

Company: Flutter Blog · Feb 15, 2024
Platform: Flutter

Michael Thomsen from Google's Flutter team just dropped their 2024 roadmap, and it comes with a refreshingly honest caveat: plans will change. This is transparency done right in open source.

Brandon Badger joins Flutter as Product Director and immediately drops two major releases: Flutter 3.19, Dart 3.3, and a new Google AI Dart SDK that brings Gemini directly into your mobile apps.

CRED Engineering faced a nightmare: caching every query combination would require 45,768+ TB of storage. Here's how they got it down to 135 MB.

Callstack just brought React Native to Apple Vision Pro, opening spatial computing to JavaScript developers. This changes the game for cross-platform VR development.

Still running separate iOS and Android teams in 2024? The economics of native development just stopped making sense. Here's why Flutter is quietly becoming the default choice for engineering leaders who need to...

How We Improved Performance Score Accuracy

Company: Sentry · Jan 17, 2024
Platform: Android / iOS

Edward Gou from Sentry reveals why their performance scores were lying to developers. A single slow pageload could tank your entire app's score, even when 99% of users had fast experiences.

Still running separate iOS and Android teams in 2024? VGV breaks down why Flutter and React Native are replacing the old playbook for multi-platform development.

Callstack shows how React Native developers can tap into decentralized social networks without learning blockchain from scratch. The Lens Protocol integration might be the easiest entry point to Web3 yet.

Scalable CI/CD Pipelines for iOS

Company: Just Eat · Jan 3, 2024
Platform: iOS

Alberto De Bortoli from Just Eat Takeaway reveals how his team built a fully automated iOS CI system that supports 40+ developers with just 5 bare metal instances. No manual SSH. No weekend waste. Pure infrastr...

Optimising the Swiggy Restaurant App

Company: Swiggy · Dec 19, 2023
Platform: iOS / Android

Swiggy's restaurant app was crashing under load. Their React Native app couldn't handle more than 100 orders on budget devices, and they needed to scale 10x.

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.

Dave Burke, VP of Engineering at Google, just dropped the playbook for integrating Gemini AI into Android apps. If you've been waiting for the right moment to add generative AI to your mobile stack, this is it.

Evolution of Bid Notifications to Courier

Company: Gojek · Dec 8, 2023
Platform: iOS / Android

Gojek was sending 97-99% of driver bid notifications successfully. They rewrote the system and hit 99.9%+.

Coinbase cut their React Native app latency by 80% in 12 months. Here's the three-pronged strategy that made it happen.

Delivery Hero tackled a tough problem: how do you let 15+ teams build features independently for the same mobile screen without chaos?

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.

A New Foundation for AI on Android

Company: Google · Dec 6, 2023
Platform: Android

Dave Burke from Google just dropped the blueprint for running foundation models directly on your Android device. No cloud required, no network dependency, just pure on-device AI.

Coinbase needed to update their app in minutes, not weeks, to keep pace with crypto's volatility. Traditional app releases took 10+ days from code freeze to launch.

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