Weekly Digest
Oct 19 - Oct 25, 2026
5 articles that week
A more reliable way to add and edit contacts on Android
Roxanna Aliabadi Walker from Google reveals a major shift in Android contact management. If your app uses WRITE_CONTACTS permission, you'll need to refactor before the next Android release—or face SecurityExceptions.
Xcode 27 replaced Simulator.app. Expo CLI and expo-device-hub already know.
Krystof Woldrich from Expo just solved the chaos that hit mobile devs when Xcode 27 killed Simulator.app. If you spent "Xcode 27 week" manually booting simulators and losing fast refresh, this one's for you.
How to Integrate Deferred Deep Linking in Flutter
Bartek Krasoń and Mateusz Turbański from Software Mansion tackle one of mobile's trickiest UX problems: getting users to the right screen after they install your app from a link. Their solution using Detour eliminates the dreaded "generic home screen" landing.
SwiftUI Performance: Find Redraws in Xcode Instruments
Antoine van der Lee reveals how SwiftUI performance problems hide in plain sight. Most developers know views redraw too often, but measuring the actual cost requires knowing exactly where to look in Instruments.
Grab Reduces ANRs by 32% and improves startup time by 35% with R8 and Profile guided optimization
Nguyen Van Minh from Grab reveals how they turned a 10-year-old, 10-million-line codebase into a performance powerhouse. The results? A 32% drop in ANRs and 35% faster startup times.