Weekly Digest
Feb 16 - Feb 22, 2026
6 articles that week
Do you need an MCP to build your native app?
Sentry ran 1,350 trials to answer an uncomfortable question: does their newly acquired XcodeBuildMCP tool actually beat a simple markdown file for iOS development?
A Practical Guide to React Native Monorepo With Yarn Workspaces
Nazar Sydiaha from Callstack tackles one of React Native's biggest scaling challenges: managing multiple apps and shared packages without losing your mind. His monorepo guide could save your team weeks of dependency hell.
How a Learning Project Became Our Modern Mobile Test Framework
What started as one engineer's Appium 1 learning project at trivago became their production mobile test framework for six years. Here's how they evolved it through Appium 2 and 3 without another ground-up rewrite.
Under the Hood: Android 17's Lock-Free MessageQueue
Shai Barack and Charles Munger from Android reveal how a 20-year-old lock in MessageQueue was secretly causing UI jank across the entire Android ecosystem. Their solution? A lock-free data structure that's up to 5,000x faster.
Agent Device: AI-Native Mobile Automation for iOS and Android
Callstack just released a CLI tool that finally lets AI agents actually test mobile apps. No more agents that can write code but can't click a button.
Kodee's Kotlin Roundup: KotlinConf '26 Updates, New Releases, and More
KotlinConf 2026 just dropped its full schedule, and the Kotlin ecosystem is moving fast. From Kotlin 2.3's release to Amazon Fashion's backend migration story, there's a lot happening right now.