Weekly Digest
Aug 15 - Aug 21, 2022
5 articles that week
Instant Performance Upgrade: From FlatList to FlashList
Shopify's React Native team just solved one of mobile development's most persistent headaches: getting lists to scroll smoothly without blank cells or frame drops.
iOS Screen Navigation Engine at Revolut
Vincent Berihuete from Revolut reveals how they ditched traditional iOS navigation patterns for something far more powerful. Forget Coordinators—this is about building a custom navigation engine that eliminates code duplication across massive fintech flows.
How We Cut the Build Time for Our Android App by 95%
Zomato's Android team was losing 7 hours of productivity every single day just waiting for builds. A 10-person team, 20 builds per day, 2+ minutes each time. The math was brutal.
Building m.uber: Engineering a High-Performance Web App
Uber built a web app that loads in 3 seconds on 2G networks. Here's how they made it smaller than a typical image file.
Sparking Jetpack Compose at Tinder
Tinder adopted Jetpack Compose before it hit 1.0. Here's how they navigated the alpha/beta chaos in a massive production app.