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One year after open sourcing React Native, Facebook dropped a bombshell at F8: Microsoft and Samsung are bringing the framework to Windows, Xbox, and SmartTVs. The mobile-first framework just became platform-ag...

3x3: iOS Build Speed and Stability

Company: LinkedIn · Apr 7, 2016
Platform: iOS

LinkedIn's iOS team set an audacious goal: ship to production three times daily, with just three hours from commit to release. Here's how they actually pulled it off.

Reproducible Android Builds

Company: Signal · Mar 31, 2016
Platform: Android

Signal just made their Android builds reproducible, and they're practically begging you not to send them panicked encrypted emails about it. This is transparency done right.

The React Native team made their app startup twice as fast. Here's how they tackled one of mobile's most critical performance challenges.

React Native just solved one of mobile development's most frustrating problems: losing your app state every time you make a code change. Their new Hot Reloading feature keeps your app running while injecting up...

Guillaume Lung from SoundCloud just open-sourced LightCycle, a library that tackles one of Android's messiest problems: lifecycle management sprawl in Activities and Fragments.

Still manually checking code coverage on Android PRs? There's a better way that turns coverage tracking into an automated gatekeeper for your codebase.

The LinkedIn Android Data Pipeline

Company: LinkedIn · Mar 2, 2016
Platform: Android

LinkedIn rebuilt their Android data pipeline from scratch for their flagship app. The result? A system that handles everything from feed updates to messaging while keeping data consistent across screens.

Skyscanner's test suite had a 99% pass rate. Sounds great, right? Wrong. Those false failures were costing hours of productivity and masking real production issues.

Skyscanner needed to store 1.6 billion weights to rank hotel prices. Their in-memory approach couldn't scale, so they turned to AWS.

Gergely Orosz from Skyscanner reveals how his team went from 0% to 100% Swift adoption in just 8 months—without rewriting a single line of working Objective-C code. Here's their battle-tested playbook.

3x3: Speeding Up Mobile Releases

Company: LinkedIn · Feb 3, 2016
Platform: iOS / Android

LinkedIn went from monthly releases to shipping mobile code 3x per day. Here's how they automated their way out of a month-long release cycle.

Mobile A/B Testing at Quora

Company: Quora · Feb 1, 2016
Platform: Mobile Web / iOS / Android

Tommy MacWilliam from Quora reveals how they A/B test mobile UX without waiting weeks for App Store approval. The secret? A hybrid architecture that lets them iterate at web speed.

Tired of wrestling with ../../../ in your React Native imports? Callstack published a quick fix back in 2016 that's still relevant today.

Michael Ma from Groupon discovered that enabling multidex increased their Android app startup time by 15% on pre-Lollipop devices. Here's how his team clawed that performance back.

Facebook's Ads Manager app demonstrates how React Native's Accessibility API makes mobile apps usable for everyone, including people with vision loss. Here's how they built it.

Optimizing Facebook for iOS start time

Company: Meta · Nov 20, 2015
Platform: iOS

Meta's iOS team achieved multi-second improvements in Facebook app startup by rethinking when work actually needs to happen.

Nick Tinsley from Squarespace shows how the same reactive programming patterns work across iOS, Android, and React Native. Think Excel formulas, but for your entire mobile app.

Facebook just dropped React Native for Android, completing the cross-platform puzzle that started with iOS earlier in 2015. Their first test? Building a production app used by millions of advertisers.

Android orientation changes are one of the most frustrating challenges for mobile engineers. When users rotate their device, Android destroys and recreates your Activities and Fragments, wiping out all member v...

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