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One year after open sourcing React Native, Facebook dropped a bombshell at F8: Microsoft and Samsung are bringing the framework to Windows, Xbox, and SmartTVs. The mobile-first framework just became platform-ag...

3x3: iOS Build Speed and Stability

Company: LinkedIn · Apr 7, 2016
Platform: iOS

LinkedIn's iOS team set an audacious goal: ship to production three times daily, with just three hours from commit to release. Here's how they actually pulled it off.

The React Native team made their app startup twice as fast. Here's how they tackled one of mobile's most critical performance challenges.

React Native just solved one of mobile development's most frustrating problems: losing your app state every time you make a code change. Their new Hot Reloading feature keeps your app running while injecting up...

Skyscanner's test suite had a 99% pass rate. Sounds great, right? Wrong. Those false failures were costing hours of productivity and masking real production issues.

Skyscanner needed to store 1.6 billion weights to rank hotel prices. Their in-memory approach couldn't scale, so they turned to AWS.

Gergely Orosz from Skyscanner reveals how his team went from 0% to 100% Swift adoption in just 8 months—without rewriting a single line of working Objective-C code. Here's their battle-tested playbook.

3x3: Speeding Up Mobile Releases

Company: LinkedIn · Feb 3, 2016
Platform: iOS / Android

LinkedIn went from monthly releases to shipping mobile code 3x per day. Here's how they automated their way out of a month-long release cycle.

Mobile A/B Testing at Quora

Company: Quora · Feb 1, 2016
Platform: Mobile Web / iOS / Android

Tommy MacWilliam from Quora reveals how they A/B test mobile UX without waiting weeks for App Store approval. The secret? A hybrid architecture that lets them iterate at web speed.

Facebook's Ads Manager app demonstrates how React Native's Accessibility API makes mobile apps usable for everyone, including people with vision loss. Here's how they built it.

Optimizing Facebook for iOS start time

Company: Meta · Nov 20, 2015
Platform: iOS

Meta's iOS team achieved multi-second improvements in Facebook app startup by rethinking when work actually needs to happen.

Nick Tinsley from Squarespace shows how the same reactive programming patterns work across iOS, Android, and React Native. Think Excel formulas, but for your entire mobile app.

Reducing FOOMs in the Facebook iOS app

Company: Meta · Aug 24, 2015
Platform: iOS

Meta's iOS team faced a silent killer: crashes that left no trace, no stack trace, no clue. Just frustrated users and a mystery to solve.

Pinterest engineers rebuilt their mobile onboarding experience and saw engagement metrics jump across the board. With 80% of users on mobile, they had to get this right.

Swift Guild

Company: Hootsuite · Apr 24, 2015
Platform: iOS

Taylor Ledingham from Hootsuite reveals how their iOS team mastered Swift in just 90 minutes per week. When Apple dropped a completely new language in 2014, most developers panicked—but Hootsuite's Guild system...

Facebook processes thousands of mobile code changes weekly. How do they catch performance regressions before users feel the pain?

Facebook reveals why React Native emerged from a simple realization: the principles that made React successful on web could transform mobile development. This 2015 post captures the pivotal moment when declarat...

Crittercism handles more traffic than Google Search (50K vs 40K requests/second) with just 3 DevOps engineers. How do they pull this off?

High Performance WebViews

Company: Zillow · Feb 9, 2015
Platform: Android / iOS

John Bito from Zillow reveals how they cut home listing load times in half while making it easier to ship features across iOS, Android, and web. The secret? Rethinking how WebViews work in native apps.

Real World Swift

Company: Duolingo · Jan 7, 2015
Platform: iOS

Duolingo shipped their first Swift app in 2015 and achieved a 0.2% crash rate. Here's what they learned building a high-stakes testing app where crashes cost users real money.

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