Meta Engineering Blog

We track 32 mobile engineering articles by the Meta team, published 2015 to 2026. They cover Android, iOS and React Native. Meta writes most about UI Performance, Performance Profiling and App Startup.

Meta Platforms builds social technology products including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, as well as VR/AR hardware. As the creator of React Native and a pioneer in mobile infrastructure, their teams manage some of the most downloaded apps in the world serving billions of users.

32 articles · Android, iOS, React Native

Website Official engineering blog

Meta mobile tech stack & focus areas

Built from the platforms and topics of 32 articles the team published.

Platforms: Android 24

iOS 15

React Native 2
Frequent topics: UI Performance 6

Performance Profiling 6

App Startup 4

Rewrite 4

Monitoring 4

App Stability 4

AI 3

Media 3
Publishing since: 2015 · latest in 2026
Official blog: engineering.fb.com

Most notable Meta articles

One pick for each topic the team covers most.

Performance Profiling · Monitoring Mobile Performance: Tooling Infrastructure at Facebook Apr 10, 2015 App Startup · UI Performance Accelerating our Android apps with Baseline Profiles Oct 1, 2025 App Stability · Testing MobileLab: Prevent Mobile Performance Regressions Oct 19, 2018

All Meta articles by year

2026 2

Patch Me If You Can: AI Codemods for Secure-by-Default Android Apps Mar 13, 2026 · Android
Meta Distinguished Eng (IC9) On Influencing Engs, Failures, and Learnings Feb 9, 2026 · iOS

2025 5

How AI Is Transforming the Adoption of Secure-by-Default Mobile Frameworks Dec 15, 2025 · Android
Enhancing HDR on Instagram for iOS with Dolby Vision Nov 17, 2025 · iOS
Accelerating our Android apps with Baseline Profiles Oct 1, 2025 · Android
Accelerating on-device ML on Meta’s apps with ExecuTorch Jul 28, 2025 · Android / iOS
How Meta is Translating Its Java Codebase to Kotlin Feb 25, 2025 · Android

2024 3

Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale Dec 18, 2024 · Android
How we think about Threads’ iOS performance Dec 18, 2024 · iOS
Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads Mar 26, 2024 · Android

2023 5

How Meta built Threads in 5 months Nov 6, 2023 · Android
Bringing HDR video to Reels Jul 17, 2023 · iOS / Android
Page not found - Engineering at Meta Jun 22, 2023 · iOS / Android
Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta Apr 11, 2023 · iOS / Android
The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture Feb 6, 2023 · iOS

2022 2

Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta Nov 22, 2022 · Android
From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin Oct 24, 2022 · Android

2021 2

Android Developers Blog: Improving App Startup: Lessons from the Facebook App Nov 16, 2021 · Android
Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile apps Sep 13, 2021 · Android

2019 1

Hermes: An Open Source JavaScript Engine Optimized for Mobile Apps Jul 12, 2019 · React Native

2018 2

MobileLab: Prevent Mobile Performance Regressions Oct 19, 2018 · Android
Profilo: Understanding App Performance in the Wild Mar 13, 2018 · Android

2017 4

Battery Instrumentation at Facebook Oct 30, 2017 · Android
Efficient and healthy background data prefetching at Instagram Oct 18, 2017 · iOS / Android
Multi-threaded rendering on Android (with Litho & Infer) Oct 18, 2017 · Android
Multithreaded Rendering on Android with Litho and Infer Sep 26, 2017 · Android

2016 3

The Mobile Device Lab at the Prineville Data Center Jul 13, 2016 · iOS / Android
React Native: A Year in Review Apr 13, 2016 · React Native / Android / iOS
Automatic memory leak detection on iOS Apr 13, 2016 · iOS

2015 3

Optimizing Facebook for iOS start time Nov 20, 2015 · iOS
Reducing FOOMs in the Facebook iOS app Aug 24, 2015 · iOS
Mobile Performance: Tooling Infrastructure at Facebook Apr 10, 2015 · iOS / Android