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DoorDash cut their iOS app launch time by 60%. Here's how they did it with three targeted optimizations that any mobile team can learn from.

Striving for iOS App Performance

Company: Strava · Jan 24, 2023
Platform: iOS

Strava's iOS app was slowing down as they scaled to 1 billion activities in 18 months. Their solution? A ruthless focus on "Time to Something Useful."

Swiggy's iOS App Now Loads 12 Times Faster

Company: Swiggy · Dec 13, 2022
Platform: iOS

Swiggy's iOS app was taking forever to launch. Their mobile team spent 3 months hunting down bottlenecks and achieved a 12x improvement in cold start time.

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

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.

Uber built a web app that loads in 3 seconds on 2G networks. Here's how they made it smaller than a typical image file.

React Native just made a massive default change that could speed up your app launches and shrink your bundle size. Here's what the benchmarks show.

Mercado Libre's Android team achieved a 24% performance boost without using Google's recommended Baseline Profiles or Macrobenchmark tools. How did they pull it off?

OkCredit slashed their Android app cold startup time by 70%. Here's the engineering playbook that made it happen.

Instawork's Android app was taking 5-6 seconds to start while iOS clocked in at just 1.5 seconds. That performance gap was killing their user experience on low-to-mid range devices.

Tree Shaking React Native Apps

Company: Klarna · May 10, 2022
Platform: React Native

Klarna Engineering borrowed a web optimization technique and cut their React Native app startup time by 20%. Here's how tree shaking made the difference.

One Android developer at Lyft cut app startup time by 21% in just 30 days. Here's how they convinced leadership to prioritize performance over features.

Facebook's Android app serves 2.9 billion users monthly. Their startup optimization strategy cut bad starts by focusing on one counterintuitive metric.

Meta's Hermes team cut app startup time in half and reduced GC pauses by 34x. Here's how they're making it the default engine for React Native.

Tokopedia built an internal tool that automatically finds Android performance bottlenecks. No more manual trace analysis or guessing which methods are slowing you down.

Callstack brings Hermes to iOS with React Native 0.64, ending Android's monopoly on this performance-focused JavaScript engine. The results challenge assumptions about cross-platform optimization.

Callstack just brought Hermes to iOS, and the performance gains are real. After years of Android exclusivity, React Native's lightweight JavaScript engine finally runs on Apple platforms.

Alexander Kulabukhov from Bumble reveals how his team scaled from a monolithic iOS app to 110+ modules across Badoo and Bumble. The journey wasn't just about splitting code—it was about building a sustainable p...

Dropbox's Android app was slowly dying by a thousand cuts. Over 4 months, startup time crept up unnoticed until they finally looked at the bigger picture.

Time to Camera Ready

Company: Snapchat · Jan 6, 2021
Platform: iOS / Android

Snap's engineering team obsesses over one metric: Time to Camera Ready. Miss the bear crossing the street because your app was too slow? That's exactly the problem they're solving.

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