Weekly Digest
Nov 21 - Nov 27, 2022
7 articles that week
Measuring React Native Rendering Times
Shopify went all-in on React Native, but had one critical question: Is it actually as fast as native? They needed proof, not assumptions.
Mercado Libre Android app is on a diet: Dynamic Features
Rodrigo Pintos from Mercado Libre reveals how they're tackling a massive problem: keeping 120 million active users happy while their app keeps growing. Their solution? Put the app on a diet.
Rewriting the Network Connection Layer in Our Android Apps
Zomato's Android app was slow. Their network layer was the bottleneck, costing them speed, bandwidth, and user patience.
Swiggy App on Diet
Swiggy slashed their Android app size by 22.6% in just one day. Here's how they did it without the usual complexity.
Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta
Meta tackled the billion-dollar mistake: NullPointerExceptions causing 27% of their Android crashes. Here's how they retrofitted null-safety onto millions of lines of Java without rewriting everything...
OKLayoutInflater
OkCredit's Android team was hitting a wall: complex XML layouts were causing frozen frames and ANRs. AndroidX's AsyncLayoutInflater wasn't cutting it.
How We Sped Up Zipline Hot Reload
Cash App's team turned a frustrating 20-second hot reload into a blazing 2.7 seconds. Here's how they systematically hunted down every millisecond.