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React Native 0.36 just dropped with game-changing background task support. If you've been waiting to run JavaScript while your app sleeps, this is your moment.
Lou Franco from Atlassian learned the hard way: internationalizing Trello's iOS app wasn't just about code. The translation files themselves became a critical UX layer that could make or break the entire locali...
Instacart shoppers were losing minutes in grocery store dead zones. The culprit? You can't trust device clocks when every second counts.
Madeleine Chercover from Hootsuite tackled a 3,500-line Android activity that had become a maintenance nightmare. Her solution? A modular MVVM architecture that makes features easy to add and hard to break.
Dan Lew from Atlassian reveals how Trello Android went from dropping the entire database on every schema change to implementing proper upgrades. The reason? They were secretly building offline mode.
An Allegro engineer spent weeks hunting a MapKit bug so elusive it disappeared and reappeared randomly across devices. The investigation went from Swift code to assembly to a conversation in San Francisco.
Twitch was dropping frames like crazy. Chat messages were taking 200ms to render when they had just 16.667ms to work with for smooth 60fps video.
Jan Monschke and Peter Minarik from SoundCloud took a gamble on five-month-old React Native technology. The result? They shipped a production app in four months instead of the estimated six.
Felipe Cypriano from Thumbtack reveals how migrating iOS apps to frameworks nearly derailed their Swift adoption—until they discovered a clever workaround for binary dependencies.
Zalando faced an impossible triangle: daily content updates, premium native UX, and distributed teams without native experience. Their solution? Server-driven UI before it was cool.
Facebook built a 2,000-device testing lab inside a data center. The journey from tangled cables to custom EMI racks is a masterclass in scaling mobile performance testing.
Zalando's iOS team challenges a widely-cited performance myth about UITableView that's been misleading developers for years.
Slack was making 4.2 million users wait through loading screens every single day. Time to fix that.
Abha Gupta from Walmart Global Tech tackles one of Android testing's toughest challenges: running mock servers inside your APK for reliable device farm testing. No external dependencies, no flaky tests.
Dragos Bogdan from Cloudflare tackles Apple's 2016 bombshell: all iOS apps must support IPv6-only networking. Here's why most developers were caught off guard by a protocol that's been around since 1998.
Daniel Molinero Reguera from Groupon reveals how traditional Android Intent creation is silently breaking apps at runtime. His team built a solution that catches errors at compile time instead.
Airbnb rebuilt their entire Android app in weeks to meet a hard Google I/O deadline. The catch? They couldn't throw away the old codebase.
Meta tackled one of iOS development's most painful problems: memory leaks that crash apps and kill performance. They automated the entire detection process.
Martin Konicek reveals how a 2013 hackathon project became a framework that changed mobile development forever. One year after open-sourcing, React Native hit 30,000 GitHub stars and attracted 650+ contributors...
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...