Weekly Digest
Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2022
7 articles that week
Productionizing Envoy Mobile at Lyft
JP Simard from Lyft reveals how they replaced URLSession and OkHttp across all their mobile apps with a single networking library—and the results weren't what anyone expected.
How We Improved Our iOS App Compile Time by 99%
Zomato's iOS team was stuck waiting 80 seconds for every incremental build. That's developer productivity bleeding out in real-time.
Android Launch Performance
Strava's Android team cut app launch time in half by treating performance optimization like athletic training: consistent measurement, strategic improvements, and relentless focus on efficiency.
Adopting SwiftUI with a Bottom-Up Approach to Minimize Risk
DoorDash just proved SwiftUI is enterprise-ready. Their secret? Don't start with a rewrite.
How OkCredit Android App Improves UX Writing by Changing Strings on the Fly
OkCredit found a way to A/B test UI copy without shipping new app versions. The results? A 1.7% lift in user activation from changing just two words.
First Annual Bazel iOS Con 2022
Jerry Marino and Square are bringing the Bazel iOS community together for the first time. If you're building iOS at scale, this conference agenda reveals where the ecosystem is heading.
Studying developer's IDE usage for Flutter development
JaYoung Lee and Ander Dobo from Google's Flutter team reveal a surprising shift: VS Code has overtaken Android Studio as the most popular IDE for Flutter development. What's driving developers to switch?