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Bank of America cut their mobile app response time in half. Here's how they did it with a simple API consolidation strategy.

Airbnb's Android tests take 2 hours to run but finish in minutes. Here's the CI infrastructure that makes it possible.

Andrew Fitz Gibbon from Google's Flutter team breaks down the animation widget maze. His decision tree framework turns overwhelming choices into a simple series of questions.

Anirudh Ramanan from Flipkart reveals how Google's IMA library was causing 15% of users to bail before videos even started. Their solution? Build their own ads framework from scratch.

Vrbo eliminated loading screens in their Android app entirely. Here's how they used Apollo GraphQL's normalized cache to make navigation feel instant.

Airbnb automated screenshot testing across thousands of Android screens to catch UI regressions that manual QA kept missing. Here's how they built it.

Per Classon from Google's Flutter team tackles a problem every web developer faces: making URLs work seamlessly in single-page apps. His solution turns Flutter's mobile routing into a powerful web navigation sy...

React Native 0.62 just shipped with Flipper debugging built in by default. This release fundamentally changes how mobile developers debug cross-platform apps.

Airbnb's Android tests were failing randomly. The culprit? Everything from cached drawables to delayed runnables creating unpredictable test behavior.

First impressions matter. For iOS apps, that means every millisecond between tap and first screen counts.

Your Android app's crash rate could be killing your Play Store rankings without you realizing it. Google's Android Vitals dashboard now has powerful new features to help you catch issues before users do.

Mercari's iOS team needed to monitor performance without building an entire infrastructure team. Here's how they did it in under a week.

Jose Alba from Google's Material team shows how to turn your Flutter apps into embeddable web demos. No hosting required—just GitHub and DartPad.

Airbnb's Android team built a custom testing framework that runs thousands of automated tests across fragments without writing repetitive test code. Here's the architecture that makes it possible.

Over 40% of one-star reviews on Google Play mention app stability issues. Google's Android Vitals can help you fix them before users bail.

Pinterest found a single tweak that slashed their build times by a jaw-dropping 99%.

Reducing Our Build Time by 50%

Company: Gojek · Mar 15, 2020
Platform: iOS / Android

Gojek's iOS team was bleeding 11 minutes per build. 100 engineers, 350 daily CI pipelines, and a productivity crisis that demanded action.

Airbnb's Android team was drowning in manual QA and flaky Espresso tests. Then they built a testing framework that changed everything.

Dream11's 110M+ users join fantasy sports contests minutes before deadlines. A slow app launch means lost revenue and unfilled contests.

Our Android testing process

Company: Headspace · Mar 3, 2020
Platform: Android

Headspace went from <20% test coverage to 80%+ during a complete app rewrite. Here's how they built a testing strategy that actually works.

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