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Grab's Android team cracked a 6-year problem that stumped multiple attempts: enabling R8 optimization across 9 million lines of code. One engineer led the charge, and AI was the secret weapon.
Gojek's Android app was taking 14.35 seconds to launch. With 500+ modules and millions of lines of code, something had to change.
Davyd Narbutovich from Callstack challenges a web development habit that React Native developers can skip entirely. Turns out, minifying JavaScript in your RN apps might be wasted effort.
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.
Swift is coming to microcontrollers, and the latest 6.3 release is making it production-ready. Embedded Swift now handles everything from memory-mapped I/O to proper debugging on resource-constrained hardware.
Keval Goyani from Simform reveals how React Native apps can shed serious weight without sacrificing performance. His team's optimization techniques cut bundle sizes dramatically while keeping apps lightning-fas...
A 260 MB productivity app? One developer spent a week cutting it to 95 MB and learned most optimization advice is wrong.
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.
Dan Brown from Google Play just dropped a requirement that'll affect every Android app targeting Android 15+. Starting November 1st, 2025, your app must support 16 KB page sizes or risk breaking on next-gen dev...
Szymon Chmal from Callstack reveals why your React Native app might be loading slowly—even when your code looks clean. The culprit? Bundle bloat you can't see without the right tools.
Tinder ships their iOS app to 190+ countries in 50+ languages. That localization overhead was costing them 51MB of install size.
A solo Android engineer at WINK+ crushed their APK down to under 8MB while competitors bloat past 20MB with fewer features. Here's the playbook.
Why do engineering teams obsess over shaving megabytes off their apps? A Reddit thread reveals the hidden costs of bloat.
Cash App cut their iOS app size in half in one year. Here's the playbook they used to get from 245 MB to 126 MB downloads.
Swift just jumped from iOS apps to microcontrollers. The Swift team launched example projects showing how to write firmware for ARM and RISC-V chips using a new experimental compilation mode.
Spotify's mobile apps generated 930+ petabytes of network traffic in 2022, equivalent to 65,000 tons of CO2 emissions. Their solution? A comprehensive app size management system that's both environmentally cons...
Glance TV's engineering team faced a brutal challenge: their Android TV app was 20.6MB and eating 515MB of RAM. Here's how they fixed it.
Peacock just ditched React Native for fully native iOS and Android. The performance gains? Significant.
Square manages hundreds of mobile engineers in a monorepo, all contributing to apps that must stay under Google Play's 150 MB limit. How do they prevent app bloat at scale?
Timotius Leonardo Lianoto from IDN Engineering discovered his iOS app was reporting 13 MB for a 2.8 MB photo. The culprit? A common mistake thousands of developers make when calculating image file sizes.