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Google Play is about to start penalizing apps that drain your users' batteries. Starting March 2026, excessive wake lock usage could get your app buried in search results or flagged with a warning label.
Google's Android team just dropped a performance framework that meets you where you are. Whether you're a solo dev or leading a performance team, there's a clear path forward.
Karthi from Mercari's Cross Border team reveals why they chose native Android over Flutter and React Native for their global marketplace launch. The decision wasn't about theory, it was about leveraging 10M+ do...
Ben Weiss from Google shares how Reddit achieved 40% faster cold startup and boosted Play Store ratings in under 2 weeks. The secret? Finally enabling R8 optimizer's full potential.
Doist's Android team faced a brutal reality: their UI test suite was so flaky that only 50% of runs passed on the first try. PRs sat idle for hours waiting for reruns.
Karthi from Mercari's Android team reveals why they ditched cross-platform frameworks for their global marketplace launch. The decision wasn't about native vs. hybrid ideology, it was about leveraging 10M+ down...
For years, video playback was the one piece of Android UI that refused to go fully declarative. That changed when Google shipped Media3's Compose UI module.
Ben Weiss, Breana Tate, and Jossi Wolf from Google just dropped a performance goldmine: Trello cut startup time by 25%, and Meta saw improvements up to 40%. All from one optimization technique most teams haven'...
Slack's Android team tackled a VPAT accessibility audit and found critical gaps that affected screen reader users. Here's what they fixed and why it matters for your mobile app.
Gunnar Torfi shares how a single developer maintained 40+ mobile screens AND a full web app by merging them into one universal codebase. No big rewrite required.
Egor Andreevich just shipped a DI framework migration across 1,500 modules serving tens of millions of users. The build speed improvements? Nearly 60% faster incremental builds.
Ben Weiss from Google reveals the single most impactful, low-effort change you can make to Android app performance. Reddit saw 40% faster cold startup and Disney+ cut ANRs by 25% with one configuration tweak.
Google is dedicating an entire week to helping Android developers ship faster apps. If performance has been on your backlog, this is your moment.
Your Jetpack Compose app might be recomposing 10X more than it needs to. The culprit? Stability.
Timur Borgalinov from Uzum Market turned Android WebView from a performance black hole into a predictable, measurable component. His team achieved 2.5× faster load times with data to prove it.
Kevin Chisholm from Google's Flutter team just dropped Flutter 3.38, and it's packed with the kind of productivity wins developers have been asking for. Dot shorthands alone will save you countless lines of boi...
Pinterest's Android CI builds were bleeding 9 minutes per run because one slow test shard held everything hostage. Their fix? Stop counting tests and start counting seconds.
After a year of relentless optimization, one Android dev achieved the impossible: 0% ANR rate in production. Here's how they did it.
Reddit cut video loading time in half on Android. Here's how they did it with ExoPlayer optimization, player pooling, and smart prefetching strategies.
Anjuka Koralage from PickMe Engineering discovered that migrating to Jetpack Compose wasn't just about replacing XML layouts. It required a complete mental shift in how to think about UI architecture.