Weekly Digest
Jun 5 - Jun 11, 2023
6 articles that week
On-Demand Resources for Lottie Animation Storage in Swift
Bevan Christian from IDN Engineering tackles a problem every mobile team faces: beautiful Lottie animations that bloat your app size. His solution? On-Demand Resources that cut initial download size while keeping the polish.
Advanced Lottie Animation Memory Management in iOS
Timotius Leonardo Lianoto from IDN Media discovered their livestream gift animations were silently eating memory with every play. Even following Lottie's official docs didn't prevent the leak.
Benchmarking your Mobile App with Rooted Android Private Devices and AWS Device Farm | Front-End Web & Mobile
AWS Device Farm now supports rooted Android devices, unlocking granular performance benchmarking that was previously impossible at scale.
Kotlin Multiplatform Money Formatter
Patrick Tyska and Terry Yiu from Cash App reveal how the same $1,000 needs to display four different ways across their app. Their solution? Kotlin Multiplatform to consolidate 10 separate money formatters into one.
Instant Feedback in iOS Engineering Workflows
Instagram engineers were losing hours every day waiting for code to compile. So they brought React Native's ⌘R instant refresh experience to native iOS.
Using Gradle Enterprise to Detect Configuration Regressions in an Android Gradle Build
Premise's mobile team caught a sneaky 3x build time regression that only showed up in CI. Here's how they hunted it down using Gradle Enterprise.