Explore 924 articles on Android performance

Clear Filters

Showing 20 of 924 articles (Page 41 of 47)

Shrinking APKs, Growing Installs

Company: Google Play · Nov 20, 2017
Platform: Android

Sam Tolomei from Google Play reveals a brutal truth: every 6MB you add to your Android app kills 1% of potential installs. And in emerging markets, the impact is even worse.

Adam Carpenter from Google reveals that most mobile games lose over half their new players in the first 10 minutes. The data shows exactly where retention breaks down and how top performers avoid it.

Instagram serves 800 million monthly users, 80% outside the US. How do you make the app feel instant for everyone, regardless of network quality?

TripAdvisor ships a 100MB app every two weeks to millions of users. One regression could tank performance for their entire user base.

Battery Instrumentation at Facebook

Company: Meta · Oct 30, 2017
Platform: Android

Facebook was flying blind on battery drain across a billion devices. User-facing battery percentage? Too noisy, too coarse, and deliberately inaccurate by design.

The future of multi-modal interfaces

Company: Google · Oct 18, 2017
Platform: iOS / Android

Meta has been quietly building the foundation for interfaces that understand speech, vision, touch, and text simultaneously. The future of mobile isn't single-mode anymore.

Facebook's mobile team tackled one of Android's toughest performance challenges: keeping UI rendering smooth without blocking the main thread.

Instagram's background prefetching could easily drain batteries and waste data. Here's how they built a system that's both fast and responsible.

Meta's News Feed team solved what many thought impossible: smooth multithreaded rendering on Android at massive scale.

James Shephard from BBC explores how Kotlin's sealed classes can fundamentally reshape your Android architecture. What if callbacks aren't the answer to async operations?

Mobile Apps: iPlayer Tech On The Move

Company: BBC · Sep 8, 2017
Platform: Android / iOS

Ross Harper from BBC's iPlayer team reveals how they ship to 45+ million downloads across thousands of device variants. Their secret? A shared codebase that builds two distinct products.

Lucia Payo from N26 reveals how combining RxJava, Clean Architecture, and Android Architecture Components created a system where code writes itself faster over time. The secret? Infinite data streams that never...

Want your React Native app to automatically match its UI colors to any image? There's now a library that taps into Android's Material Design color extraction magic.

Facebook cut React Native Time to Interaction in half on low-end Android devices. The secret? They stopped trusting their testing tools and went straight to production data.

Marko Kevac from Bumble's Platform team benchmarked 6 associative array implementations to replace their aging Judy data structure. The winner? Not what you'd expect when memory matters.

Mind Maps for Fast and Effective Testing

Company: Badoo · Aug 1, 2017
Platform: Android / iOS

Kateryna Sprynsian from Bumble's iOS team ditched traditional test cases for something faster. With weekly releases shipping multiple features, her team needed a testing approach that could actually keep up.

Android Instant Apps at Thumbtack

Company: Thumbtack · Jul 25, 2017
Platform: Android

Francis Kam from Thumbtack reveals how they partnered with Google pre-launch to build one of the first Android Instant Apps. The results? Instant app messages now equal their full installed app.

Strava Mobile App Versions

Company: Strava · Jul 11, 2017
Platform: Android / iOS

Jeff Remer from Strava explains why their mobile app jumped from version 5.14 to 14.0 in just four months. Spoiler: it wasn't feature bloat.

Guillermo Orellana from Bumble's tech team walks through the real-world pain of integrating React Native into an existing Android app. Spoiler: the official docs won't save you.

Android Tech Stack Overview

Company: Freeletics · Jul 4, 2017
Platform: Android

Wahib-Ul-Haq from Freeletics opens the vault on the complete Android tech stack powering four production fitness apps. This is the kind of transparency engineering teams rarely share publicly.

Loading articles...