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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.
Alejandro Rodriguez Salamanca from Shopify reveals how manual mobile releases were killing their velocity. The solution? A platform that cut release cycles from 3 weeks to 1 week.
Uber operates across 600+ cities on 4,500+ mobile carriers. Their HTTP/2 stack was failing users in lossy wireless networks.
Andrew Winata from Blibli shows how ditching raw SQLite queries for Room cut boilerplate code and made database operations type-safe at compile time. The migration took just a few strategic refactoring steps.
Gojek's driver app serves 2 million+ partners who depend on it for their daily income. When the app goes down for even an hour, drivers lose significant earnings—so a rewrite was high stakes.
Daniel Schramm from Google Play just dropped new analytics tools that could transform how you think about subscription revenue. If you're leaving money on the table with failed payments, this matters.
Julio Zynger from SoundCloud reveals how they ship mobile releases every two weeks without breaking things. Their secret? A release train model that turns chaos into predictability.
Phong Lam from Walmart Global Tech tackles a problem every mobile dev faces: infinite scroll that doesn't tank performance. His solution? Stop rendering everything and start being strategic.
Uber ran 129 experiments across 354 projects to answer one question: What's the real cost of adopting Kotlin at scale?
Robinhood's Android app hit a wall: 100k+ dex count, skyrocketing build times, and features breaking each other. Sound familiar?
AWS Amplify just made mobile authentication dramatically simpler. Device tracking, OAuth 2.0, and SAML federation now work out of the box for iOS and Android developers.
React Native 0.59 just dropped with the biggest Android performance upgrade in years. If your app still feels sluggish compared to iOS, this changes everything.
Siaw Young from Carousell reveals how they built a system that lets them update thousands of product categories without pushing app updates. The secret? A cross-platform markup language that operates at a highe...
Siaw Young from Carousell reveals how they built a server-driven UI system that lets them ship features without app releases. Think HTML for mobile apps—but way more powerful.
Efe Karasabun from Thumbtack reveals how GraphQL solved their biggest mobile API headaches. No more over-fetching data or coordinating breaking changes across teams.