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Veyndan Stuart from Cash App just open-sourced a solution to one of mobile development's most annoying problems: writing pagination logic twice for Android and iOS.

Scaling Mobile Device Management

Company: Uber · Nov 3, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Uber's Client Platform Engineering team faced a massive challenge: rolling out MDM to 20,000+ employees across hundreds of global offices where standard Apple enrollment wouldn't work everywhere.

Yi Yang from Google reveals why your Android performance measurements might be completely wrong. Debug builds can show 2-3x worse performance than what users actually experience.

Spotify migrated 2,200+ mobile components and moved their entire iOS/Android codebase to Bazel across 100+ squads. Here's how they survived the chaos.

Swiggy's Android team was losing 1+ minute on every single build. For a team generating 55 builds daily, that's death by a thousand paper cuts.

From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin

Company: Meta · Oct 24, 2022
Platform: Android

Meta just migrated 10+ million lines of Android code from Java to Kotlin across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. Here's how they automated the impossible.

Planting Trees One Ride at a Time

Company: Gojek · Oct 20, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Gojek turned ride-hailing into climate action with a simple toggle. One developer said it best: 'For the first time in my life, writing code generated physical outputs.'

Debugging High Latency in the Market Store

Company: Grab · Oct 20, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab's ML feature store went from 200ms to 2 second latency. The culprit? A single line of code in an async library.

Turo open-sourced Nibel, their solution to the messy problem of migrating fragment-based Android apps to Jetpack Compose without breaking everything.

Swiggy discovered 8% of their delivery drivers were running cloned apps and spoofing GPS locations. This was breaking their live order tracking system and creating chaos for customers.

How We Reduced Our ANR by Three Times

Company: OkCredit · Oct 18, 2022
Platform: Android

OkCredit slashed their ANR rate by 67% and cold startup time by 70%. Here's how they debugged one of Android's most frustrating problems.

Zomato's Android app was 23MB to download and hogging up to 700MB of cache. Their platform team decided to put it on a diet while still shipping new features.

Conquering Our Android Crash Count

Company: Strava · Oct 18, 2022
Platform: Android

Strava thought they had a few hundred crashes per day. Crashlytics revealed they were missing 42,000 crashes per week.

Meetup sends 8-10 million notifications daily. Their queue kept backing up, sending messages late or not at all.

Recovering from Crashes with Safe Mode

Company: Lyft · Oct 17, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Lyft engineers faced a nightmare scenario: feature flags causing infinite crash loops on app launch, requiring emergency hotfixes and losing revenue. They built Safe Mode to break the cycle.

Arlind Hajredinaj from SoundCloud reveals how a beautiful UI redesign accidentally tanked their image loading performance. The fix? A deep dive into Android optimization that every mobile team should read.

Mobile Developer Experience at Slack

Company: Slack · Oct 12, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Slack's 8-person Mobile DevXp team saved $240K annually just by improving PR notifications. Most companies are massively underinvesting in developer experience.

Shift-Left iOS Testing with Focus Flows

Company: Lyft · Oct 12, 2022
Platform: iOS

Lyft's iOS tests were spending 93% of their time on steps that had nothing to do with what they were actually testing. Sound familiar?

Nina from Signal just announced they're killing a feature that's been in the Android app since before Signal even existed. After nearly a decade of supporting plaintext SMS alongside encrypted messages, they're...

Pinterest's API team just freed up 4.5GB of memory per host with a clever database swap. The result? Fewer servers, happier users, and a masterclass in optimization.

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