Weekly Digest
Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2019
3 articles that week
Wednesday, Jun 26
OkHttp 4 Goes Kotlin
Jesse Wilson from Square just rewrote 25,000 lines of Java code in Kotlin without changing a single feature or fixing a single bug. Here's why that matters for your Android app.
Tuesday, Jun 25
Creating a Fluid Scroll Experience on iOS
ClassPass engineers faced a deceptively simple challenge: build an Apple Maps-style draggable list. The first attempt looked perfect—until users tried the continuous scroll.
Monday, Jun 24
Android Jetpack Benchmark: JSON Parser Performance
Mootaz Ltaief from OLX Engineering put four popular Android JSON parsers head-to-head using Jetpack Benchmark. The results reveal a brutal tradeoff: the fastest parser costs you 1.1 MB of app size.