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iOS Monorepo CI/CD Pipelines

Company: Just Eat · Jun 16, 2021
Platform: iOS

Alberto De Bortoli from Just Eat Takeaway reveals how they slashed their iOS CI complexity by consolidating dozens of module repos into one. The result? One PR instead of multiple, faster iteration, and smarter...

Tokopedia slashed their mobile homepage JavaScript from 320kB to just 37kB. Here's how they did it without rebuilding everything.

Aaron Clarke from Google's Flutter team eliminated unnecessary memory copies in platform channels and achieved up to 52% performance gains. Here's how he debugged his way through Objective-C class clusters and ...

Medium's iOS team went all-in on SwiftUI for production features serving millions of users. Here's how they made it work in a legacy codebase.

Swift Package Collections

Company: Swift.org Blog · Jun 7, 2021
Platform: iOS

Tom Doron from the Swift Core Team just made package discovery way less painful. Swift 5.5 introduces Package Collections, turning endless search results into curated, trustworthy lists.

Grab's logging bills were spiraling out of control. Their solution? A complete rethink of how they capture what happens in production.

Scalable Jetpack Compose Navigation

Company: Bumble · Jun 3, 2021
Platform: Android

Lachlan McKee from Bumble Tech tackles a critical scalability problem in Jetpack Compose Navigation that Google's docs don't address. His solution? Delegate route creation to feature modules using Dagger Hilt f...

Microsoft's mobile teams were drowning in duplicate code. Every app rebuilt the same file picker, calendar, and sharing experiences from scratch.

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.

Tokopedia's iOS team tackled a common scaling problem: how do you break apart a monolithic app without creating circular dependency chaos?

Coinbase migrated 56 million users from native iOS/Android to React Native without breaking their $1.8B quarterly revenue stream. Here's how they pulled it off.

Improving iOS Intangibles with Tactical

Company: Medium · May 12, 2021
Platform: iOS

Medium's iOS team was scattered across product teams, causing their codebase and user experience to fragment. Their solution? A biweekly meeting format borrowed from holocracy that transformed how they ship.

Six iOS App Features Explained

Company: BlaBlaCar · May 12, 2021
Platform: iOS

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...

Scaling iOS at Bumble (Part 3)

Company: Bumble · Apr 28, 2021
Platform: iOS

Bumble's iOS team hit a wall: dozens of engineers, hundreds of modules, and Xcode was buckling under the pressure. Sound familiar?

Swift 5.4 Released

Company: Swift.org Blog · Apr 26, 2021
Platform: iOS

Ted Kremenek from Apple's Swift Core Team just dropped Swift 5.4, and it's packed with performance wins that'll make your builds faster and your runtime leaner. This isn't just new syntax—it's measurable speed ...

iOS Accessibility Best Practices

Company: Just Eat · Apr 26, 2021
Platform: iOS

Adrian Russell from Just Eat Takeaway turned on Screen Curtain and tried to order food through his own app. What he discovered was shocking: over 100 accessibility failures making the app nearly impossible to u...

Amorn Apichattanakul from KBTG challenges a common excuse among native developers: you don't need to wait for your next project to start using Flutter.

SwiftUI with UICollectionView

Company: Expedia · Apr 22, 2021
Platform: iOS

Kari Grooms from Expedia Group tackles a problem every iOS team faces: how do you start using SwiftUI when your app is built on UICollectionView? Her solution is clever, but comes with some surprising gotchas.

Callstack brings Hermes to iOS with React Native 0.64, ending Android's monopoly on this performance-focused JavaScript engine. The results challenge assumptions about cross-platform optimization.

Tokopedia's iOS team faced a critical problem: their monolithic app took so long to build that it threatened their weekly release schedule.

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