Weekly Digest
Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2026
21 articles that week
Instagram and Facebook Deliver Instant App Experiences on Android
Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya reveals how Meta eliminated video loading delays for billions of users. The secret? A complete rethinking of how Android apps prepare content before you even tap play.
Announcing React Native Evals
Mike Grabowski and the Callstack team just dropped React Native Evals—an open-source benchmark that turns AI coding model debates from anecdotal opinions into reproducible evidence.
Building Privacy-First Analytics with Swift
TelemetryDeck is processing analytics for 16 million users monthly using Swift on the server. The infrastructure costs and performance gains are making Python and Node developers take notice.
Elevating AI-assisted Android development and improving LLMs with Android Bench
Matthew McCullough from Android just dropped something the AI coding world needed: a public leaderboard showing which LLMs actually understand Android development. No more guessing which AI assistant knows Jetpack Compose from Java.
How WHOOP Decreased Excessive Partial Wake Lock Sessions by Over 90%
WHOOP's Android team turned a Google Play compliance warning into a masterclass in battery optimization. Their excessive wake lock sessions dropped from 15% to under 1% in just 30 days.
Ship Your Compose UI Updates in Seconds
Aditya Shinde (Developer Chunk) tackles the 24-48 hour app store review cycle that kills mobile iteration speed. His solution: Server-Driven UI that updates Compose screens without deployments.
Bringing Lighthouse to the App: Building Performance Metrics for React Native
Indeed just open-sourced their solution to a problem every web-first company faces: how do you measure mobile app performance with the same rigor you had on the web?
Go from prompt to working prototype with Android Studio Panda 2
Android Studio Panda 2 enables developers to go from a text prompt to a working prototype, leveraging AI capabilities to accelerate the development workflow.
Memory Leaks You Probably Missed in Jetpack Compose
Mahmut Yuce from Getir destroys the myth that declarative UI means no memory leaks. Compose apps leak differently, and these patterns are sneakier than the old View system bugs.
Android Devices Extend Seamlessly to Connected Displays
Google announces general availability of connected display support in Android 16 QPR3, built in collaboration with Samsung. Users can now connect supported Pixel and Samsung phones to external monitor...
Supercharge your Android development with 6 expert tips for Gemini in Android Studio
Trevor Johns from Google just dropped 6 expert tips for using Gemini AI in Android Studio, and they're a game-changer for how we build apps. These aren't basic prompting tricks—this is how Google engineers and GDEs are actually using AI agents in production.
Silent Killer in Production: Memory Leak Diagnosis and Solution Journey
Taha Selim Aksakal from Teknasyon Engineering tracked down a memory leak that silently grew RAM usage from 160MB to critical levels over 12 hours—with zero traffic. The culprit? An unexpected interaction between two popular libraries.
Kotlin Enums: Replace values() with entries
Ilyas Ipek from Teknasyon reveals a hidden performance killer in Kotlin that most Android devs hit daily. That innocent enum.values() call? It's silently allocating and cloning arrays every single time.
How We Claudified Our iOS App Without Wrecking Our Codebase
Dan Federman from Tolan reveals how Claude now writes 55% of their iOS commits. And their crash-free rate improved while doing it.
A Simple Guide to Version Catalog Implementation in Android
ilyas ipek from Teknasyon breaks down how Android teams can finally escape dependency management chaos. The solution? A single TOML file that centralizes every library version across your entire project.
Announcing React Native Brownfield v3 with Expo Config Plugin
Artur Morys-Magiera and Hur Ali from Callstack just dropped React Native Brownfield v3, and it changes everything about integrating React Native into existing native apps. One line of config, and you're ready to ship.
Swift Combine: A Guide to Apple's Reactive Framework
Dilek Eminoğlu from Teknasyon breaks down Apple's Combine framework—the reactive programming tool that's been quietly transforming iOS async code since WWDC 2019. If you're still wrestling with callback hell, this is your way out.
Expo Router v55: more native navigation, more powerful web
Jakub Tkacz and Hassan Khan from Expo just dropped a routing update that fundamentally changes how you build cross-platform navigation. No more choosing between native feel and code reuse.
Using Gradle in Android: Build Variants, Build Types, and Manifest Placeholders
Enes İğneci from Teknasyon Engineering breaks down the Gradle configuration secrets that separate amateur Android builds from production-ready apps. If you've ever shipped the wrong API key to production, this one's for you.
Using an MCP to perform product optimizations
Antoine van der Lee stopped guessing what to build next. By connecting his AI coding agent to Amplitude analytics via MCP, he now makes product decisions backed by real user data without leaving his IDE.
XcodeGen and the Quest to Modularize the Wealthfront iOS App
Wealthfront's iOS team eliminated merge conflicts entirely and cut build times by breaking their 10-year-old monolith into modules. Here's how XcodeGen made it possible.