63 articles on Networking for Android performance
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Paweł Gadomski from Software Mansion just solved one of React Native's messiest problems: getting WhatsApp-style incoming calls to actually work when your app is killed. The solution? Stop treating it as a libr...
Colin Feo from Discord reveals how mobile gaming's retention problem just got a social solution. Discord's Social SDK v1.10 brings full iOS and Android support, and early partners are already seeing lapsed play...
Hafsa Amanulla from PickMe reveals why your beautiful mobile UI means nothing if your APIs are broken. A delayed menu load or failed promo code isn't just annoying—it's a business killer.
Stas Kravets shares how a Python GraphQL service's P99 timeout detection was so unreliable that only P50 requests actually timed out as expected. The culprit? IO operations under heavy load can bring down your ...
Your Android app crashes when the WiFi drops. Your users' apps shouldn't. Offline-first architecture flips the script: the network becomes optional, not essential.
Pierrick CAEN from Medium thought upgrading Apollo Kotlin would be straightforward. Instead, it exposed hidden cache issues that had been silently failing for months.
Shaurya Jaiswal from Slice reveals how his team cut app launch API calls from 28 to 12, improving startup time by 40%. The secret? A custom observability system that exposes what Firebase Performance Monitoring...
Square just launched their Mobile Payments SDK to GA with a twist: your phone becomes the card reader. No external hardware required for contactless payments.
Coinbase cut network requests by 64% during traffic spikes without degrading user experience. Here's how they engineered their way to massive scale.
Ayush Bagaria from PhonePe set out to cut chat latency by 50% in their P2P payment flow. The journey taught some expensive lessons about the gap between POC results and production reality.
Arvel Alana from IDN Engineering breaks down how to add real-time features to Android apps without the WebSocket headaches. AWS AppSync handles the heavy lifting while you focus on the user experience.
Swiggy's restaurant app was crashing under load. Their React Native app couldn't handle more than 100 orders on budget devices, and they needed to scale 10x.
Gojek was sending 97-99% of driver bid notifications successfully. They rewrote the system and hit 99.9%+.
DoorDash was sending cart abandonment notifications to users who were still actively browsing. The result? Annoying customers and missing conversion opportunities.
Instagram DMs handle millions of messages per second. How do they make every send feel instant, even when your network drops mid-tap?
Slack's mobile team faces a unique challenge: users expect desktop-level performance while bouncing between subway tunnels and spotty cellular networks.
Instagram's Android app had a JSON parsing problem that was killing their News feed performance. Traditional solutions weren't cutting it.
Flipkart shaved 30% off page load times in their React Native app with 500M weekly visits. Here's how they did it without rewriting everything.
Swiggy was bleeding money on video bandwidth costs. The culprit? Videos being requested at 270px, 272px, 275px... you get the idea.
Anatole Beuzon and Bowen Chen from Datadog turned what seemed like a simple deployment alert into a months-long debugging odyssey. What they uncovered reveals how deceptively complex network latency issues can ...