Weekly Digest
Dec 12 - Dec 18, 2022
6 articles that week
Advanced Animation with Flutter Flame Engine — Ep.1 Sprite Sheet
Amorn Apichattanakul from KBTG reveals how game engine techniques can transform everyday Flutter apps into delightful experiences. His secret? Borrowing animation tricks from the gaming world.
Swiggy's iOS App Now Loads 12 Times Faster
Swiggy's iOS app was taking forever to launch. Their mobile team spent 3 months hunting down bottlenecks and achieved a 12x improvement in cold start time.
Saving 5,400 Hours a Year: Developer Productivity with Gradle
Paul Hundal from Square's Mobile Developer Experience team reveals how one Gradle feature saved their Android team the equivalent of watching 60 football games worth of waiting time. The ROI? $1.1 million annually.
Pointer Events Support in React Native
React Native just dropped experimental Pointer Events support, and it's a game-changer for cross-platform input handling. No more forking the framework to support mouse, pen, or keyboard interactions.
Build a Flutter app with Very Good CLI and AWS Amplify
Very Good Ventures shows how to build production-ready Flutter authentication in hours, not days. Their approach combines AWS Amplify with battle-tested architecture patterns for 100% test coverage.
Reddit Recap: State of Mobile Platforms Edition (2022)
Reddit's mobile team just dropped their unfiltered take on iOS vs Android development in 2022. Spoiler: both platforms have some explaining to do.