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.
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?
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.
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.