Weekly Digest
Oct 6 - Oct 12, 2025
10 articles that week
A Guide to Generating Swift Code with Swift Syntax and Swift OpenAPI (Part 2)
Esraa Eid from Deloitte UK tackles Swift code generation with a deep dive into SwiftSyntax and OpenAPI. If you've ever struggled with generating type-safe models from specs, this comparison will change how you approach automation.
Kotlin Multiplatform Contest 2026
Students and recent grads: JetBrains is offering free trips to Munich for building Kotlin Multiplatform projects. The 2026 contest is open now, and the bar might be lower than you think.
Flutter for Enterprises: Everything CTOs and Engineering Leaders Need to Know
Very Good Ventures reveals why global leaders like Disney, Toyota, and BMW are ditching fragmented native development for a single framework. The shift isn't just technical—it's transformational.
Meet the Flutter Extension for Gemini CLI
Google just dropped an experimental Flutter extension that turns Gemini CLI into an AI coding assistant that can build production-ready apps from scratch. This isn't just autocomplete: it's an agent that plans, implements, tests, and commits code.
React Native Version 0.82 Release
React Native just dropped its most significant release ever. Version 0.82 completely removes the Legacy Architecture, marking what the team calls 'the start of a new era' for mobile development.
A Guide to Generating Swift Code with Swift Mustache (Part 1)
Esraa Eid from Deloitte UK reveals how to make Swift code generate Swift code—no low-level languages required. She explores three powerful approaches to transform JSON schemas into production-ready Swift structs.
Medium Android App — Migrating from Apollo Kotlin 3 to 4: Lessons Learned
Pierrick CAEN from Medium thought upgrading Apollo Kotlin would be straightforward. Instead, it exposed hidden cache issues that had been silently failing for months.
HelloFresh’s Brownfield Leap: One App to Feed Them All!
HelloFresh was running 6 mobile apps on 2 completely different tech stacks. Their teams couldn't ship features fast enough, and customers were getting inconsistent experiences across brands.
Managing Dependency Hell in a 400-Module Android Project
Erdem Topak from Flink reveals how their Android team scaled from 30 to 437 modules—then discovered 400 unused dependencies silently killing their build times. Here's how they built a custom solution when existing tools failed.
Introducing Swift Profile Recorder: Identifying Performance Bottlenecks in Production
Apple just open-sourced the profiling tool they've used for years to debug Swift services at massive scale. No special privileges, no eBPF, no system dependencies required.