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Google just dropped a game-changing update to Play Services that fundamentally shifts how mobile games handle multiplayer and how apps integrate with Drive. This isn't just another SDK update.
Twitter just made mobile apps 30% faster with a single line of code. Here's how they did it and why they're giving it away for free.
Twitch rebuilt their entire video infrastructure while serving millions of concurrent viewers. Here's how they pulled off a zero-downtime migration.
Trevor Johns from Android Developer Relations reveals a breaking change that could silently corrupt encrypted data for apps using Unicode passphrases. If your app uses PBKDF2 key derivation, this affects you.
Google just open-sourced a physics engine with fluid simulation and made Unity integration dead simple. If you're building mobile games, December 2013 brought some serious firepower to your toolkit.
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Dave Burke, Engineering Director for Android Platform, just dropped Android 4.4 KitKat with a game-changing focus: making flagship Android experiences run smoothly on entry-level hardware. Project Svelte proves...
Google just dropped Android 2.2 support to unlock more powerful APIs. Google Play Services 4.0 brings major changes that will affect how you monetize and track users.
Scott Main and David Braun from Android just changed the rules for SMS apps. If you're using hidden APIs, your messaging app will silently fail on KitKat.
Greg Hartrell from Google's Play Games team just dropped three major updates that give game developers unprecedented visibility into player behavior and double their cloud storage capacity.
Natalia Ukhorskaya from JetBrains shows how Kotlin's seamless Java interop makes adoption frictionless. Just create a .kt file and let IntelliJ do the heavy lifting.
Etsy's iOS team faced a dilemma: their safety net for preventing crashes was quietly hiding logic bugs across the entire codebase.
JetBrains made history in 2013 by bringing Kotlin to Android Studio for the first time. This walkthrough from the early days shows just how far Android development has come.
When mobile traffic jumped from 25% to 40% in six months, Etsy knew they had a problem. Their engineers were testing on personal iPhones while users browsed on dozens of different devices.
Twitter built a 2FA system where your private keys never leave your phone and the server stores no persistent secrets. Here's the engineering behind it:
Twitter's iOS team shipped beta builds to employees and discovered crashes that would never show up in testing. The culprit? Jailbroken devices and unprefixed Objective-C categories.
Brian Smith from Dropbox introduced an API in 2013 that promised to make cloud sync feel like working with local files. Developers loved it, but there's a twist.
Signal's team discovered that building encrypted voice calls was easy. Building a VoIP system that actually worked well? That was the hard part.
Jason Brennan from Shopify just open-sourced a debugger that lets you tweak iOS UI properties and watch them update in real-time on your device. No recompiling, no breakpoints, just instant visual feedback.
Christine Tieu from Twitter's Mobile Web Team reveals how they flipped their entire mobile UI for Arabic and Farsi without drowning in duplicate CSS rules.