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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.
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.