Weekly Digest
Aug 17 - Aug 23, 2020
2 articles that week
Wednesday, Aug 19
Wire Support For Swift, Part 1
Eric Firestone and Jake Wharton from Square just brought Wire's protocol buffer compiler to Swift, and their opinionated approach throws out some sacred cows. Why build yet another proto compiler when Google already has one?
Tuesday, Aug 18
Clean Android WebView Caching
Microsoft Teams Android engineers cut WebView initialization time by 70% using a clever caching technique. Here's how they avoided memory leaks while sharing WebViews across activities.