Weekly Digest
Apr 21 - Apr 27, 2025
3 articles that week
Friday, Apr 25
How Dropbox leverages testing to maintain high level of trust at scale
Dropbox maintains 1B+ downloads with under 30 Android engineers. Their secret? A testing strategy that evolved from complete chaos to surgical precision.
Mobile Bridge: Making WebViews Feel Native
Shopify had 600 mobile screens to build. Building them all natively would have crushed their velocity, but WebViews felt slow and broken.
Wednesday, Apr 23
How to Reduce Android Studio Memory Usage
Android Studio eating your RAM? You're not alone. A few strategic tweaks can reclaim gigabytes and slash build times by 20-50%.