Weekly Digest
Jan 5 - Jan 11, 2026
6 articles that week
Swizzling SwiftUI View Body
Noah Martin from Sentry cracked a problem that seemed impossible: swizzling pure Swift code to automatically track SwiftUI view performance. The technique is wild.
React Native in 2026: Trends and Predictions
Katarzyna Smolen from Software Mansion declares 2026 the year React Native finally grows up. After years of architectural overhauls and breaking changes, the framework is hitting 4.5 million weekly downloads and entering its stability era.
Fine-tuning vision-language models on memory-constrained devices
Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan and team from Amazon AGI just solved a major headache for mobile AI: how do you fine-tune vision-language models on devices that can't handle backpropagation? Their answer challenges conventional wisdom about what's possible on edge hardware.
Project Butter: A Journey for App Performance Improvement
Gojek's Android app was taking 14.35 seconds to launch. With 500+ modules and millions of lines of code, something had to change.
Unlock Native Power in Flutter Part 2
Flutter developers: still treating native integration like a black box? You're leaving serious performance on the table.
From PNGs to GIFs: Mastering Animated Images in Android with Coil
Pavithra Chamod J from PickMe Engineering tackles a common Android performance trap: GIFs that look great but silently drain memory and tank your UI responsiveness.