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Artem Sharypov from Strava's Experience team rebuilt their entire Android upload service from scratch. Why throw away working code? Because sometimes technical debt costs more than a rewrite.
Netflix hosted their first mobile engineering event to tackle a problem every mobile team faces: building performant apps on resource-constrained devices.
React Native's hot reloading was so broken that most developers just turned it off. The 0.61 release completely reimagined it from scratch.
Alifa Nurani Putri and Yusuf Cahyo Nugroho from Traveloka reveal how their single Dagger component ballooned to 17,705 lines of code across 25+ products. Their refactoring journey cut initialization time and bu...
Ansgar Lin from Grindr Engineering found a single placeholder image consuming 8.3MB of memory at runtime. On devices with only 16-32MB Java heap, that's a recipe for constant crashes.
Callstack explores how to add React Native to existing Android apps without a full rewrite. This brownfield approach lets teams ship cross-platform features while keeping their native codebase intact.
Kevin, a Staff Engineer at Slack, shares how a distributed mobile team ships features across Vancouver and San Francisco without stepping on each other's toes. His secret? Strategic work separation and dogfoodi...
Nelson Osacky from SoundCloud reveals how simply turning on Gradle's remote build cache got them almost zero cache hits. The real work was hunting down why.
Doğu Deniz Uğur challenges CircleCI's own documentation. While the official docs say Android emulator tests aren't supported on their Linux VMs, he found a workaround that eliminates the need for Firebase Test ...
Eyal Guthmann from Dropbox shares a hard truth: writing code once in C++ cost them more than writing it twice in native languages. Here's why their cross-platform strategy backfired.
Bianca Gandolfo spent 7 years mastering JavaScript—then faced an identity crisis when asked to switch to Android. Her internal debate reveals a tension every specialist faces: go deeper or go broader?
Maya Reddy from Pinterest reveals how their team eliminated last-minute P1 bugs by automating ad metrics testing. The shift from bi-weekly manual QA to continuous integration transformed their release confidenc...
Uber's Android team hit a wall: their profiling tools were either too slow or too inaccurate to debug real performance issues.
Robinhood's Android team cracked a tough modularization puzzle: how do you navigate between completely decoupled feature modules without creating dependencies?
Facebook just open-sourced Hermes, a JavaScript engine built specifically for React Native on Android. This isn't just another optimization tweak. It's a ground-up rethink of how JS should run on mobile.
Ansgar Lin from Grindr Engineering discovered their app was crashing with OutOfMemoryErrors, and the culprit wasn't bad code. It was a tiny WebP image causing massive runtime memory allocation.
React Native 0.60 just dropped with changes so significant, they're calling it a migration milestone. If you're still manually linking native modules, this changes everything.
Jesse Wilson from Square just rewrote 25,000 lines of Java code in Kotlin without changing a single feature or fixing a single bug. Here's why that matters for your Android app.
Mootaz Ltaief from OLX Engineering put four popular Android JSON parsers head-to-head using Jetpack Benchmark. The results reveal a brutal tradeoff: the fastest parser costs you 1.1 MB of app size.
Saurabh Arora from Viki reveals the video playback mistakes that shock users and kill engagement. Most Android apps get at least 3 of these wrong.