Reddit Recap: State of Mobile Platforms Edition (2023)

Reddit's mobile team just dropped their brutally honest take on iOS vs Android development in 2023. Spoiler: neither platform makes it easy.

Reddit's engineering team shares their real-world experience building for both major mobile platforms. This is a candid look at the tradeoffs, pain points, and surprises they've encountered while maintaining feature parity across iOS and Android.

Key Takeaways

• SwiftUI still too immature for production at Reddit's scale
• Jetpack Compose adoption faster than SwiftUI despite being newer
• Android's fragmentation remains the biggest operational headache
• iOS review process unpredictability causes more delays than Android
• Cross-platform tooling evaluated but native still wins for Reddit

The team reveals which platform actually ships features faster (and why it's not the one you'd expect).