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Microsoft Teams Android engineers faced a critical problem: heavy initialization code in lifecycle callbacks was killing app launch times. Their solution? Get lazy.

John Ryan from Flutter's team tackles one of mobile dev's messiest problems: navigation. But the solution might be more complex than the problem itself.

Eugene Zubkov from Revolut hit a wall building a custom Android chart: it literally disappeared due to texture size limits. His debugging journey reveals critical performance traps most Android devs don't see c...

GitHub Mobile and GraphQL

Company: GitHub · Sep 23, 2020
Platform: iOS / Android

Hesham Salman from GitHub reveals how GraphQL eliminated over-fetching and let their mobile team ship features at warp speed. The secret? Letting the client define exactly what data it needs.

New Rider App Architecture

Company: Uber · Sep 18, 2020
Platform: iOS / Android

Uber threw away years of code and rebuilt their rider app from scratch. Here's why that radical decision paid off.

5 Minute DevOps Effective Testing

Company: Walmart · Sep 15, 2020
Platform: iOS / Android

Walmart's DevOps team has a bold claim: if you're not testing during development, you're risking the business. Here's why your testing strategy might be fundamentally broken.

Motion Engineering at Scale

Company: Airbnb · Sep 8, 2020
Platform: iOS / Android

Airbnb was shipping hundreds of features, but custom animations were getting cut due to complexity. Their solution? A declarative framework that reduced transition code from hundreds of lines to just a few.

Netflix Android engineers migrated 170 API endpoints from a monolith to a new microservice without users noticing. Here's how they pulled it off over a year.

Florina Muntenescu and Rohit Sathyanarayana from Google reveal why SharedPreferences has been secretly blocking your UI thread and causing ANRs. Their solution? Jetpack DataStore, a complete reimagining of Andr...

Jay Kong from Google's Gaming and Graphics team just opened the beta for Android GPU Inspector, and early results are impressive. Diablo Immortal cut vertex bandwidth by 45%, while Crash Bandicoot slashed frame...

Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs

Company: Slack · Aug 28, 2020
Platform: iOS / Android

Slack processes 8.5 billion spans daily, but their tracing system looks nothing like traditional distributed tracing. Here's why they rebuilt it from scratch.

Anton Begeima from OkCupid's engineering team turned a localization nightmare into an elegant solution. Instead of managing separate images for every language, his team built a custom TextView that handles text...

Clean Android WebView Caching

Company: Microsoft · Aug 18, 2020
Platform: Android

Microsoft Teams Android engineers cut WebView initialization time by 70% using a clever caching technique. Here's how they avoided memory leaks while sharing WebViews across activities.

Yehezkiel L from Tokopedia cut their dependency injection boilerplate dramatically by migrating from Dagger Android to Hilt. The result? Cleaner code, faster onboarding, and way less confusion for their team.

Maria Sharkina from DoorDash discovered that Android's Navigation Library has a critical flaw: it forces navigation before your app is ready. Here's how her team solved it without breaking deep links or the bac...

Yury from Bumble Tech tackles a painful Gradle problem: buildSrc invalidates your entire build cache with every change. Here's how composite builds solve it without sacrificing IDE support.

Shipping Two Apps In One Android

Company: Snapchat · Jul 27, 2020
Platform: Android

Snapchat shipped two complete Android apps in a single APK to A/B test their rewrite. The engineering challenge? Android wasn't designed to support this at all.

Brian Plummer from OkCupid hit a wall adding a simple analytics event: his unit tests broke because static constructs were calling the analytics library directly. Here's how he fixed it with a pattern that made...

Spotify's mobile infrastructure team turned build time chaos into predictable performance. Their secret? Making every engineer a data scientist.

The React Native team at Facebook just pulled back the curtain on how they decide what to build next. Spoiler: cross-platform consistency isn't their top priority.

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