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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.
Eugene Zubkov from Revolut hit a wall building a custom Android chart: it literally disappeared due to texture size limits. His debugging journey reveals critical performance traps most Android devs don't see c...
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 ...
Hesham Salman from GitHub reveals how GraphQL eliminated over-fetching and let their mobile team ship features at warp speed. The secret? Letting the client define exactly what data it needs.
Uber threw away years of code and rebuilt their rider app from scratch. Here's why that radical decision paid off.
Holly Borla announces Swift 5.3 with performance gains that cut code size by 40% in some apps and slash heap memory to under 1/3 of previous usage. These aren't incremental improvements.
Walmart's DevOps team has a bold claim: if you're not testing during development, you're risking the business. Here's why your testing strategy might be fundamentally broken.
Coinbase trained 27 engineers on React Native in 3 days during COVID lockdowns. Here's what they learned about scaling technical education.
Charles Zhang from Shopify reveals how they cut React Native code review time from minutes to seconds. The secret? Rethinking how JavaScript bundles get shared between developers.
Airbnb was shipping hundreds of features, but custom animations were getting cut due to complexity. Their solution? A declarative framework that reduced transition code from hundreds of lines to just a few.
Netflix Android engineers migrated 170 API endpoints from a monolith to a new microservice without users noticing. Here's how they pulled it off over a year.
Florina Muntenescu and Rohit Sathyanarayana from Google reveal why SharedPreferences has been secretly blocking your UI thread and causing ANRs. Their solution? Jetpack DataStore, a complete reimagining of Andr...
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...
Slack processes 8.5 billion spans daily, but their tracing system looks nothing like traditional distributed tracing. Here's why they rebuilt it from scratch.
Anton Begeima from OkCupid's engineering team turned a localization nightmare into an elegant solution. Instead of managing separate images for every language, his team built a custom TextView that handles text...
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...
Microsoft Teams Android engineers cut WebView initialization time by 70% using a clever caching technique. Here's how they avoided memory leaks while sharing WebViews across activities.
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.
Shopify's POS app processes billions in sales yearly. Unlike typical apps, downtime means merchants can't make sales at all.