Weekly Digest
Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2020
5 articles that week
How Grammarly Built a Native Keyboard for Android
Grammarly's Android keyboard gets used 70+ times per day by the average user. Building it meant solving problems most app developers never face.
Monitoring Android Codebase
Fajar Ulin Nuha from Tokopedia reveals how their 50+ Android engineers manage a codebase that changes so dramatically every single week that assumptions become dangerous. Their solution? Become data-driven developers who measure everything.
Logging And Alerting in Android Tokopedia
Hendry Setiadi from Tokopedia reveals how they built a custom logging system that catches production issues before users even notice. Firebase Crashlytics is great, but what if you need more?
Leak Canary: What Is It?
Memory leaks are silent killers of Android app performance. They're hard to spot manually, but there's a tool that does the heavy lifting for you.
BBC World Service & Web Performance
Chris Hinds from BBC World Service reveals how they migrated 31 million weekly readers to a modern React app and achieved performance gains of up to 83%. The results? A complete transformation of one of the world's largest multilingual news platforms.