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Callstack explores a critical question for React Native teams: when can you safely use JavaScript libraries built for the web, and when do you need native alternatives?
Amorn Apichattanakul, an iOS developer since the iPhone 3GS era, spent 1.8 years mastering Flutter and wishes someone had created a cheat sheet for the transition. So he built one himself.
Cecília Saraiva from Glovo reveals how their 30+ iOS engineers maintain code consistency without the manual overhead. Spoiler: automation is doing the heavy lifting.
Jens Johansen from Google's Dart team reveals how they made Flutter's hot reload 30% faster. The optimization saves Flutter developers collectively over a year of waiting time every 5 days.
Amorn Apichattanakul from KBTG compares Flutter's UI testing to native iOS and doesn't hold back: 'UI test in Flutter is... horrible.' But there's a method to the madness.
Pierce Johnson from Lyft reveals how a custom IntelliJ plugin transformed productivity for 60+ Android developers. The secret? Automating the repetitive tasks that were quietly draining engineering velocity.
Nikhil Swaminathan from AWS Amplify just made full-stack deployments dramatically simpler. No more merge conflicts from generated config files, no more manual backend syncing across environments.
Adrian Hartanto from Traveloka cracked a problem that plagues every multiplatform team: keeping identical components in sync across iOS, Android, and React Native without tripling the maintenance work.
Tim Sneath from Google reveals Flutter 2.2 just hit a major milestone: it's now the #1 cross-platform framework, powering 1 in 8 new Play Store apps. The momentum is undeniable.
Charlotte Martin and Victor Carmouze from BlaBlaCar reveal how small, often-overlooked iOS features can dramatically improve user experience. Most developers chase headline features while missing the details th...
Sameer Samat from Google just announced a move that will put more money back into 99% of Android developers' pockets. Starting July 2021, the economics of building on Google Play are fundamentally changing.
React Native powers nearly 10% of mobile apps globally, yet most SDK providers are leaving this massive market on the table. Here's why building an official wrapper might be your smartest growth move.
Sid Rathi from Expedia Group debugged a production nightmare: KStream apps dying in an endless OOM loop. The culprit? A single unclosed iterator eating native memory.
Nate Cook from Apple's Swift team just dropped Swift Algorithms, an open-source package that could change how iOS developers write collection code. If you've ever written a gnarly nested loop to chunk data or f...
John Ryan from Flutter's team tackles one of mobile dev's messiest problems: navigation. But the solution might be more complex than the problem itself.
Michael Ilseman from Apple's Swift team just open-sourced a library that turns error-prone C system calls into clean, type-safe Swift code. If you've ever wrestled with file descriptors and errno, this changes ...
Jay Kong from Google's Gaming and Graphics team just opened the beta for Android GPU Inspector, and early results are impressive. Diablo Immortal cut vertex bandwidth by 45%, while Crash Bandicoot slashed frame...
Amazon just made a major bet on Flutter. AWS Amplify now officially supports Flutter, and this could be the validation enterprise teams have been waiting for.
Eric Firestone and Jake Wharton from Square just brought Wire's protocol buffer compiler to Swift, and their opinionated approach throws out some sacred cows. Why build yet another proto compiler when Google al...
Yehezkiel L from Tokopedia cut their dependency injection boilerplate dramatically by migrating from Dagger Android to Hilt. The result? Cleaner code, faster onboarding, and way less confusion for their team.