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Network Latency Issues in Mobile Apps

Company: Datadog · May 26, 2023
Platform: Android / iOS

Anatole Beuzon and Bowen Chen from Datadog turned what seemed like a simple deployment alert into a months-long debugging odyssey. What they uncovered reveals how deceptively complex network latency issues can ...

Aliou Sarr from leboncoin reveals how shifting UI test ownership from QA to developers doubled their test count in under a year. The result? A 99.6% crash-free iOS app serving 28 million monthly users.

70% of users expect apps to launch in 3 seconds. 63% will abandon yours if it takes more than 5.

Swiggy was missing production deadlines because their UAT environments were constantly unstable or unavailable. Sound familiar?

Leigha Jarett from Flutter reveals how Google's cross-platform framework is becoming a serious contender for iOS development. With over 1 million apps built and major players like BMW and WeChat on board, the i...

Testing Android UI Performance

Company: Glance · May 18, 2023
Platform: Android

Glance's engineering team serves 100M+ users where visual experience is everything. When UI performance drops, users notice immediately—and they leave.

Pepperfry's engineering team cut API response times by parallelizing requests. Here's how they used Java multi-threading to handle scale without blocking.

Robinhood was taking weeks and multiple engineers just to make minor UI tweaks. Their Server Driven UI platform cut that to hours with one engineer.

Dominic Zirbel from Thumbtack reveals how they modernized 300+ Android screens without a complete rewrite. Their new framework cut code by 30% while maintaining production stability.

Flexible Continuous Integration for iOS

Company: Airbnb · May 10, 2023
Platform: iOS

Michael Bachand and Xianwen Chen from Airbnb rebuilt their entire iOS CI system—and cut maintenance time while running 10 million minutes of jobs quarterly. Here's how they ditched 300+ physical Macs for AWS in...

Timothy Hoang from Google just dropped major updates to Flutter's mobile ads plugin. If you've been writing platform code just to customize native ads, that pain point is officially solved.

Gojek's Android driver app was drowning: 30-minute CI builds, 10-minute local builds, and a team that had outgrown its monolithic codebase. Something had to give.

Austin Keith and Ryan Sander from McDonald's reveal how they're eliminating duplicate codebases across iOS and Android without sacrificing native performance. Their solution challenges the assumption that cross...

Instagram's disk cache was causing more crashes than any other component in their Android app. The culprit? A well-intentioned open source library that made error handling a developer nightmare.

Jyoti Sheoran from Getir shares how her team successfully migrated their multi-module MVVM Android app from XML to Jetpack Compose without breaking production. The secret? Their decoupled architecture made grad...

Swiggy's Android team cut cold start time by 53% in three months. Here's the playbook that drove a 2.2% conversion lift.

Photo Picker API Across Android Versions

Company: Google · Apr 24, 2023
Platform: Android

Yacine Rezgui from Google just solved one of Android's biggest photo picker headaches. Developers can now ship a single, permission-free implementation that works all the way back to KitKat.

Markus Hintersteiner from Sentry reveals how they cracked a tricky problem: tracking user interactions in Jetpack Compose without cluttering developers' code or killing performance.

Uber's iOS app startup metrics became 130% inflated overnight. The culprit? iOS 15's pre-warming feature broke their entire measurement system.

Jack Webb from ASOS turned his Android team into terminal power users. His secret? A toolkit that slashes thousands of keystrokes daily and makes complex git operations feel effortless.

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