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Android Guild Week 2: More Modules

Company: Strava · Aug 9, 2022
Platform: Android

Strava's Android team hit a wall trying to modularize their codebase the traditional way. So they flipped their entire architecture upside down.

Performance Bottlenecks in Go Apps

Company: Grab · Aug 4, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab's engineering team discovered their Go apps were mysteriously throttling at 1.94 CPU cores but flying at 2 cores. The culprit? A sneaky interaction between Kubernetes VPA and GOMAXPROCS.

Android App Modularization Strategy

Company: Coupang · Aug 3, 2022
Platform: Android

Seongchul Park from Coupang reveals how they tamed a 300,000+ line monolithic Android codebase. The build times were spiraling, new features were getting tangled, and Google's modern deployment features were ou...

Alexander Dadukin and Dhriti Chawla reveal what it's like being the only 2 Android engineers supporting analytics infrastructure for all of Yelp. Spoiler: they can't see or touch what they build.

Gojek runs 15,000+ VMs across 250+ GCP projects serving millions of customers. How do they manage infrastructure at this scale without chaos?

Zoltan Lippai from DoorDash cracked a problem that stumped early SwiftUI adopters: how do you programmatically scroll when Apple didn't give you the tools? His team built their own solution for iOS 13.

OkCredit serves millions in India's Tier-2/3 cities where flaky networks are the norm. Their Android team just cut network call times by 30% with some clever client-side optimizations.

Klarna's team removed their caching layer and saw a 25% performance boost. Wait, what?

Android UI Testing with Firebase

Company: Turo · Jul 19, 2022
Platform: Android

Turo's Android team hit a wall: their single-device test setup couldn't keep up with their growing UI test suite. Hours of wait time for a single test run wasn't going to cut it.

Automating Mobile Event Verification

Company: Swiggy · Jul 19, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Swiggy was drowning in analytics chaos. Thousands of events per session, scattered specs across docs, and manual verification eating up engineering time.

Johnson Li from Coupang reveals how migrating from Mac minis to AWS EC2 transformed their mobile CI/CD pipeline. Their team was drowning in 3,000+ daily builds with 1-hour wait times.

React Native just made a massive default change that could speed up your app launches and shrink your bundle size. Here's what the benchmarks show.

Swift Language Updates from WWDC22

Company: Swift.org Blog · Jul 6, 2022
Platform: iOS

Swift just got a massive upgrade. Feli Bernutz, Matthaus Woolard, and Natalia Panferova break down the Swift 5.6 and 5.7 releases that are reshaping how iOS teams write concurrent, type-safe code.

Mercado Libre's Android team achieved a 24% performance boost without using Google's recommended Baseline Profiles or Macrobenchmark tools. How did they pull it off?

Booking.com's Android team built their own rendering performance monitoring system. Here's why Google Play Console metrics weren't enough.

Android UI Development with Jetpack

Company: Just Eat · Jun 30, 2022
Platform: Android

Neil Davies from Just Eat Takeaway reveals how his team eliminated manual theme updates across multiple Android apps. Their solution? A design token system that cut redesign time by 80%.

Tinder was manually creating 40+ localized Lottie animations for every campaign. Their solution? A clever architecture that reduced it to just one.

Very Good Ventures shows how to build a production-ready Flutter app with Supabase that achieves 100% test coverage. This isn't your typical Firebase clone tutorial.

Removing 30% of our iOS crashes

Company: Robinhood · Jun 21, 2022
Platform: iOS

Robinhood eliminated 30% of ALL iOS crashes by refactoring a single screen. That screen drove 30% of their revenue at the time.

Ting Becker and Paul Hudson curated the best property wrapper resources from the Swift community. If you're still writing boilerplate code in Swift, you're missing out on one of the language's most powerful fea...

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