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Facebook built a 2,000-device testing lab inside a data center. The journey from tangled cables to custom EMI racks is a masterclass in scaling mobile performance testing.

Slack was making 4.2 million users wait through loading screens every single day. Time to fix that.

Android Testing with Mocking

Company: Walmart · Jun 30, 2016
Platform: Android

Abha Gupta from Walmart Global Tech tackles one of Android testing's toughest challenges: running mock servers inside your APK for reliable device farm testing. No external dependencies, no flaky tests.

Daniel Molinero Reguera from Groupon reveals how traditional Android Intent creation is silently breaking apps at runtime. His team built a solution that catches errors at compile time instead.

Android: An Exercise in "Ship It"

Company: Airbnb · May 11, 2016
Platform: Android

Airbnb rebuilt their entire Android app in weeks to meet a hard Google I/O deadline. The catch? They couldn't throw away the old codebase.

React Native: A Year in Review

Company: Meta · Apr 13, 2016
Platform: React Native / Android / iOS

Martin Konicek reveals how a 2013 hackathon project became a framework that changed mobile development forever. One year after open-sourcing, React Native hit 30,000 GitHub stars and attracted 650+ contributors...

One year after open sourcing React Native, Facebook dropped a bombshell at F8: Microsoft and Samsung are bringing the framework to Windows, Xbox, and SmartTVs. The mobile-first framework just became platform-ag...

Reproducible Android Builds

Company: Signal · Mar 31, 2016
Platform: Android

Signal just made their Android builds reproducible, and they're practically begging you not to send them panicked encrypted emails about it. This is transparency done right.

The React Native team made their app startup twice as fast. Here's how they tackled one of mobile's most critical performance challenges.

React Native just solved one of mobile development's most frustrating problems: losing your app state every time you make a code change. Their new Hot Reloading feature keeps your app running while injecting up...

Guillaume Lung from SoundCloud just open-sourced LightCycle, a library that tackles one of Android's messiest problems: lifecycle management sprawl in Activities and Fragments.

Still manually checking code coverage on Android PRs? There's a better way that turns coverage tracking into an automated gatekeeper for your codebase.

The LinkedIn Android Data Pipeline

Company: LinkedIn · Mar 2, 2016
Platform: Android

LinkedIn rebuilt their Android data pipeline from scratch for their flagship app. The result? A system that handles everything from feed updates to messaging while keeping data consistent across screens.

Skyscanner's test suite had a 99% pass rate. Sounds great, right? Wrong. Those false failures were costing hours of productivity and masking real production issues.

Skyscanner needed to store 1.6 billion weights to rank hotel prices. Their in-memory approach couldn't scale, so they turned to AWS.

3x3: Speeding Up Mobile Releases

Company: LinkedIn · Feb 3, 2016
Platform: iOS / Android

LinkedIn went from monthly releases to shipping mobile code 3x per day. Here's how they automated their way out of a month-long release cycle.

Mobile A/B Testing at Quora

Company: Quora · Feb 1, 2016
Platform: Mobile Web / iOS / Android

Tommy MacWilliam from Quora reveals how they A/B test mobile UX without waiting weeks for App Store approval. The secret? A hybrid architecture that lets them iterate at web speed.

Michael Ma from Groupon discovered that enabling multidex increased their Android app startup time by 15% on pre-Lollipop devices. Here's how his team clawed that performance back.

Facebook's Ads Manager app demonstrates how React Native's Accessibility API makes mobile apps usable for everyone, including people with vision loss. Here's how they built it.

Nick Tinsley from Squarespace shows how the same reactive programming patterns work across iOS, Android, and React Native. Think Excel formulas, but for your entire mobile app.

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