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Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya reveals how Meta eliminated video loading delays for billions of users. The secret? A complete rethinking of how Android apps prepare content before you even tap play.

Gojek's Android app was taking 14.35 seconds to launch. With 500+ modules and millions of lines of code, something had to change.

Ben Weiss and Sara Hamilton from Google wrap up Performance Spotlight Week with a roadmap to faster Android apps. Reddit cut ANR errors by 30% with one configuration change.

Ben Weiss from Google shares how Reddit achieved 40% faster cold startup and boosted Play Store ratings in under 2 weeks. The secret? Finally enabling R8 optimizer's full potential.

Deeper Performance Considerations

Company: Google · Nov 19, 2025
Platform: Android

Ben Weiss, Breana Tate, and Jossi Wolf from Google just dropped a performance goldmine: Trello cut startup time by 25%, and Meta saw improvements up to 40%. All from one optimization technique most teams haven'...

Ben Weiss from Google reveals the single most impactful, low-effort change you can make to Android app performance. Reddit saw 40% faster cold startup and Disney+ cut ANRs by 25% with one configuration tweak.

Meta just shipped a masterclass in Android performance optimization. Their apps now load up to 40% faster thanks to one underutilized Android feature.

Johan Bay from Google just dropped a game-changer for Android app size. Apps sharing resources across form factors are seeing 50%+ size reductions with one configuration change.

Ever wonder why Android apps launch so fast? The answer lies in a clever biological hack borrowed from how human cells divide.

Chenglai Huang and Michael Huang from Duolingo reveal how 39% of entry-level Android users were abandoning their app before it even loaded. Their fix? A masterclass in performance optimization that saved hundre...

Duolingo's Android team cut startup time by 30% with baseline profiles. But the path from 'easy setup' to production was anything but smooth.

Reddit just proved that Android's built-in performance tools can deliver massive wins without custom engineering. Their app startup improvements are eye-opening.

Back Market slashed their Android app startup time by 60%. Here's the engineering breakdown that made it happen.

How We Reduced GrabX SDK Initialisation Time

Company: Grab · Nov 22, 2024
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab's SDK was taking 4 minutes to initialize with 400MB of config data. That's a cold start problem that kills autoscaling.

Mobile App Launch Profiling

Company: Sentry · Sep 27, 2024
Platform: Android / iOS

Andrew McKnight from Sentry just solved one of mobile performance monitoring's biggest blind spots. Ever wondered what's actually happening in your app before main() even gets called?

Your Android app might be bleeding users before they even finish launching it. Performance isn't a feature anymore. It's table stakes.

The 1Weather team slashed their Android app cold start time by over 70% and reduced slow starts by 24%. Here's the systematic approach that got them there.

Skeelo's Android app had a problem: too many users were experiencing painfully slow startup times. They needed a solution that didn't require rewriting their entire codebase.

Delivery Hero's Android team achieved 30% performance gains without writing a single line of new feature code. Here's how baseline profiles transformed their app.

NordVPN just made their Android app 60% faster in one critical flow. The fix? A performance feature most Android devs still aren't using.

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