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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.

30 articles · Android, iOS, React Native

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Android Dec 15, 2025

How AI Is Transforming the Adoption of Secure-by-Default Mobile Frameworks

iOS Nov 17, 2025

Enhancing HDR on Instagram for iOS with Dolby Vision

Android Oct 1, 2025

Accelerating our Android apps with Baseline Profiles

Android / iOS Jul 28, 2025

Accelerating on-device ML on Meta’s apps with ExecuTorch

Android Feb 25, 2025

How Meta is Translating Its Java Codebase to Kotlin

iOS Dec 18, 2024

How we think about Threads’ iOS performance

Android Dec 18, 2024

Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale

Android Mar 26, 2024

Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads

Android Nov 6, 2023

How Meta built Threads in 5 months

iOS / Android Jul 17, 2023

Bringing HDR video to Reels

iOS / Android Jun 22, 2023

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iOS / Android Apr 11, 2023

Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta

iOS Feb 6, 2023

The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture

Android Nov 22, 2022

Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta

Android Oct 24, 2022

From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin

Android Nov 16, 2021

Android Developers Blog: Improving App Startup: Lessons from the Facebook App

Android Sep 13, 2021

Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile apps

React Native Jul 12, 2019

Hermes: An Open Source JavaScript Engine Optimized for Mobile Apps

Android Oct 19, 2018

MobileLab: Prevent Mobile Performance Regressions

Android Mar 13, 2018

Profilo: Understanding App Performance in the Wild

Android Oct 30, 2017

Battery Instrumentation at Facebook

Android Oct 18, 2017

Multi-threaded rendering on Android (with Litho & Infer)

iOS / Android Oct 18, 2017

Efficient and healthy background data prefetching at Instagram

Android Sep 26, 2017

Multithreaded Rendering on Android with Litho and Infer

iOS / Android Jul 13, 2016

The Mobile Device Lab at the Prineville Data Center

iOS Apr 13, 2016

Automatic memory leak detection on iOS

React Native / Android / iOS Apr 13, 2016

React Native: A Year in Review

iOS Nov 20, 2015

Optimizing Facebook for iOS start time

iOS Aug 24, 2015

Reducing FOOMs in the Facebook iOS app

iOS / Android Apr 10, 2015

Mobile Performance: Tooling Infrastructure at Facebook