How We Slashed Android Startup Time by 30% with Baseline Profiles
Nobody likes waiting, especially when opening an app. We noticed a clear trend: the faster our app started, the more users stuck around.
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How Dropbox leverages testing to maintain high level of trust at scale
With more than one billion downloads, the Dropbox app for Android has to maintain a high quality bar for a diverse set of use cases and users. With less than 30 Android engineers, manual testing and #yolo isn’t enough
How to Reduce Android Studio Memory Usage
Android Studio is a powerful IDE, but it can be memory-hungry. A few tweaks can significantly improve performance and reduce excessive memory usage. Here I will maintain the original tips structure while diving deeper into why each optimization works and how to apply it.
Netflix App Testing At Scale
Testing at Netflix continuously evolves. In order to fully understand where it’s going and why it’s in its current state, it’s also important to understand the historical context of where it has been.
Make WebViews edge-to-edge in Android
Ensure your WebViews are compatible with Android 16, as Android 16 removes the ability to opt-out of drawing your app edge-to-edge.
How server-driven UI is revolutionizing mobile app experiences
At Careem, agility and adaptability are key to delivering highly personalized and seamless user experiences as we need to move fast to react to customer behaviour during different times of the year, such as Ramadan
Skyscanner’s journey to effective observability
The year was 2020 and Skyscanner, like the entire travel industry, faced unprecedented challenges due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, this difficult year also provided an opportunity for introspection
Future for Java: Virtual Thread
This article offers an introduction to Java’s lightweight thread model, virtual thread, based on our study of it.
How Meta is translating its Java codebase to Kotlin
Meta has been working to shift its Android codebase from Java to Kotlin, a newer language for Android development that offers some key advantages over Java.
The Quest to Understand Metric Movements
Suppose you just saw an interesting rise or drop in one of your key metrics. Why did that happen? It’s an easy question to ask, but much harder to answer.
How we reduced manual regression tests by 70% using AI tools
AI tools offer a solution to difficult-to-automate regression testing woes.
Adopting Jetpack Compose for Etsy’s Android App
ne of our Guiding Principles at Etsy is that we “commit to our craft.” This means that we have a culture of learning, in which we’re constantly looking for opportunities to improve and learn
How We Reduced the WINK+ Android App to Less Than 10MB
One of the major challenges developers face in Android app development is optimizing app size without sacrificing functionality.
Bringing Jetpack Compose to Instagram for Android
Introducing a new Android UI framework like Jetpack Compose into an existing app is more complicated than importing some AARS
🚨 Understanding Memory Leaks in Android & How LeakCanary Can Help 🚀
As Android developers, managing memory is one of the most critical aspects of building…
Performance Class Helps Google Maps Deliver Premium Experiences
Describes how Google Maps uses Android’s Performance Class to deliver high-quality, premium user experiences.
Leading a project to migrate hundreds of screens to SwiftUI/Jetpack Compose from UIKit/AndroidView in Merpay
Merpay swaps old UI for SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose across screens.
Boosting App Performance: Strategies to Optimize Network Requests
Coinbase fine-tunes network calls to make their app feel snappier for users.
Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale
Meta shifted their giant Android codebase from Java to Kotlin over years.
How we sped up Android and iOS builds by 68% on CI
We made our engineers happier by cutting build times down from 50 minutes to 16.