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Phill Williams and Vijay Gondi from Netflix reveal how a codec upgrade is solving one of mobile streaming's most annoying problems: constantly adjusting your volume.

Tokopedia iOS: Hello 2021, Rewind 2020

Company: Tokopedia · Jan 14, 2021
Platform: iOS

Samuel Edwin from Tokopedia reveals how his iOS team achieved a 10x build time reduction while shipping features that got them featured on the App Store. Despite 2020's challenges, they transformed their entire...

Time to Camera Ready

Company: Snapchat · Jan 6, 2021
Platform: iOS / Android

Snap's engineering team obsesses over one metric: Time to Camera Ready. Miss the bear crossing the street because your app was too slow? That's exactly the problem they're solving.

Rico Harisin from Tokopedia reveals how their Android team shipped weekly releases while building a complete performance infrastructure from scratch. Their secret? Treating CI/CD like a product.

Emily Fujimoto from Thumbtack reveals how her team caught critical layout bugs that traditional testing completely missed. The solution? Screenshot tests that verify what your UI actually looks like, not just w...

Delegation Pattern in Swift

Company: Blibli.com · Dec 18, 2020
Platform: iOS

Williams Perdana from Blibli.com uses a CEO analogy to explain one of Swift's most powerful patterns. Just like a CEO delegates to department heads, your code can delegate responsibilities to keep things clean ...

Jingwei Hao from Lyft reveals how real-time stats APIs caught a production crash spike at 9:55am, enabling engineers to ship a hotfix before most users even noticed the problem.

Bumble's Android app was bleeding users to ANR dialogs. Their ANR rate sat above Google Play's threshold, threatening search rankings and user trust.

Bumble's Android team slashed their ANR (Application Not Responding) rate by 6x. Here's how they debugged one of mobile's most frustrating problems.

Microsoft Teams faced a 1.2 MB app size bloat after upgrading React Native. Here's how they cut it down to just 0.48 MB.

Rob Pridham from BBC Sport reveals how his team tackled a massive Android refactor—migrating from multiple activities to a single-activity architecture while keeping the app running in production.

Rob Pridham from BBC Sport reveals how they modernized a 7-year-old Android codebase without a full rewrite. The secret? A strategic refactor that tackled navigation chaos first.

Rob Pridham from BBC Sport ditched the trendy frameworks and went old school—callback listeners and view controllers—to modernize their Android app. Controversial? Maybe. Effective? Absolutely.

Dropbox cut their Android CI pipeline from 75 minutes to 25 minutes without switching build systems. Here's how a team of 60+ mobile engineers solved testing at scale.

Talha Naqvi from Flipkart reveals how React Native cut their A/B testing cycles in half while serving 100M+ users. The secret? Strategic compromises and custom infrastructure.

Grammarly's Android keyboard gets used 70+ times per day by the average user. Building it meant solving problems most app developers never face.

Monitoring Android Codebase

Company: Tokopedia · Nov 27, 2020
Platform: Android

Fajar Ulin Nuha from Tokopedia reveals how their 50+ Android engineers manage a codebase that changes so dramatically every single week that assumptions become dangerous. Their solution? Become data-driven deve...

Hendry Setiadi from Tokopedia reveals how they built a custom logging system that catches production issues before users even notice. Firebase Crashlytics is great, but what if you need more?

Leak Canary: What Is It?

Company: Huawei · Nov 25, 2020
Platform: Android

Memory leaks are silent killers of Android app performance. They're hard to spot manually, but there's a tool that does the heavy lifting for you.

BBC World Service & Web Performance

Company: BBC · Nov 23, 2020
Platform: Mobile Web

Chris Hinds from BBC World Service reveals how they migrated 31 million weekly readers to a modern React app and achieved performance gains of up to 83%. The results? A complete transformation of one of the wor...

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