Weekly Digest
Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2025
6 articles that week
How We Reduced the WINK+ Android App to Less Than 10MB
A solo Android engineer at WINK+ crushed their APK down to under 8MB while competitors bloat past 20MB with fewer features. Here's the playbook.
Bringing Jetpack Compose to Instagram for Android
Instagram just migrated to Jetpack Compose. But when you're operating at Meta scale, you can't just import some AARs and start coding.
Orientation and Resizability Changes in Android 16
Maru Ahues Bouza from Google just dropped a bombshell: Android 16 is killing off portrait-only and fixed-orientation apps on large screens. If your app locks orientation, you've got work to do.
Code Optimization with ProGuard and R8 in Android
Enes İğneci from Teknasyon Engineering breaks down why your Android app might be bloated, slow, and vulnerable. The fix? Two powerful code optimization tools most developers underutilize.
Newer versions of React Native have a less expensive <Text /> component which runs 35% faster.
React Native just got a serious performance boost. The humble <Text /> component now runs 35% faster in newer versions.
React Native Version 0.77 Release
React Native 0.77 just dropped with over 1,061 commits from 161 contributors. The team is bringing web-standard CSS properties to mobile and making a bold move to Swift for iOS templates.