Weekly Digest
Mar 3 - Mar 9, 2025
5 articles that week
Battery Optimization in Android Jetpack Compose
Chamod Lakmal from PickMe Engineering reveals how unnecessary recompositions in Jetpack Compose can silently drain your users' batteries. Most Android devs are missing these optimization wins.
Supercharging Discord Mobile: Our Journey to a Faster App
Discord just cut startup times in half and eliminated those frustrating blank screens on budget Android devices. Here's how they did it.
Future for Java: Virtual Thread
Woowa Brothers needed to handle massive I/O in their authentication gateway. Java's traditional threads couldn't keep up, so they explored virtual threads.
Revamping PickMe iOS App: From Objective-C to SwiftUI
PickMe rebuilt their entire iOS app from Objective-C to SwiftUI in just 6 months. Here's how a team that started with 1 developer scaled to 10 engineers and shipped a complete rewrite.
Caching in ReactNative apps — Boon or Bane?
Ankit Bhalla from Cars24 tackles the double-edged sword of mobile caching: it can make your React Native app blazing fast or turn it into a buggy nightmare. Here's how to get it right.