Weekly Digest
Oct 26 - Nov 1, 2020
4 articles that week
Friday, Oct 30
Building iOS 14 Widgets for Carousell - Part 1
Julia Maurer and Ha Pham from Carousell reveal how they shipped their iOS 14 widget in one sprint. Their secret? Starting with power users who open the app 300 times daily.
Thursday, Oct 29
Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps — now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform
Netflix just went all-in on Kotlin Multiplatform for their production studio apps. Here's why they're betting on shared code over platform-specific rewrites.
Tuesday, Oct 27
Our Counterintuitive Fix for Android Path Normalization
Dropbox Android users couldn't see folders with Cyrillic characters or certain special names. The obvious fix? Way too risky to attempt.
Decomposing network calls on the Lyft mobile apps
Lyft's mobile apps used to poll a single endpoint every 5 seconds for everything. That "Universal Object" became their biggest reliability nightmare.