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Android App Excellence: Duolingo
Duolingo's Android app was degrading 5-10% every month. New features meant guaranteed performance regressions every 90 days.
Android Architecture for the Rocketship - Part 1: Modularisation
Huan Nguyen from Afterpay reveals how they architected their Android rewrite to support hundreds of future developers. The secret? A three-tiered modular structure that makes parallel development actually work.
Building an Enterprise IntelliJ Plugin for Android Developers
Pierce Johnson from Lyft reveals how a custom IntelliJ plugin transformed productivity for 60+ Android developers. The secret? Automating the repetitive tasks that were quietly draining engineering velocity.
Announcing the Mobile Native Foundation
Keith Smiley from Lyft just announced something that could change how we all build mobile apps. Instead of every company rebuilding the same infrastructure in silos, major tech players are finally collaborating...
Tokopedia Android Engineering 2020 Review
Rico Harisin from Tokopedia reveals how their Android team shipped weekly releases while building a complete performance infrastructure from scratch. Their secret? Treating CI/CD like a product.
Modernising a Legacy Android App Architecture: Part Three - Applying the Refactor
Rob Pridham from BBC Sport reveals how his team tackled a massive Android refactor—migrating from multiple activities to a single-activity architecture while keeping the app running in production.
Modernising a Legacy Android App Architecture: Part One - Single Activity
Rob Pridham from BBC Sport reveals how they modernized a 7-year-old Android codebase without a full rewrite. The secret? A strategic refactor that tackled navigation chaos first.
Modernising a Legacy Android App Architecture: Part Two - MVVM
Rob Pridham from BBC Sport ditched the trendy frameworks and went old school—callback listeners and view controllers—to modernize their Android app. Controversial? Maybe. Effective? Absolutely.
Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app
Netflix Android engineers migrated 170 API endpoints from a monolith to a new microservice without users noticing. Here's how they pulled it off over a year.
Migrating Tokopedia Academy App From Dagger Android Into Hilt!
Yehezkiel L from Tokopedia cut their dependency injection boilerplate dramatically by migrating from Dagger Android to Hilt. The result? Cleaner code, faster onboarding, and way less confusion for their team.
React Native Core Principles and Best Practices
The React Native team at Facebook just pulled back the curtain on how they decide what to build next. Spoiler: cross-platform consistency isn't their top priority.
Android: Leveraging RecyclerView Effectively with ViewModel
Ninad MG from JioHotstar challenged Android best practices and won. His team's unconventional approach to RecyclerView architecture now powers a social feed with 20+ card types across multiple teams.
Making Slack Faster By Being Lazy: Part 2
Slack's desktop client was grinding to a halt as teams scaled. The culprit? An over-reliance on browser LocalStorage that seemed smart at first.
A Great Way to do Android Presenters
Cash App's Android team chose presenters over ViewModels and MVVM. Here's why their "boring" code wins.
Reactive Data Flow in Revolut Android App
Roman Iatcyna from Revolut reveals how they built a reactive data layer that handles offline-first architecture at scale. Their solution? A custom DataObservableDelegate that abstracts away the complexity of mu...
Dagger and Multi-Module Architecture in Traveloka Android App
Alifa Nurani Putri and Yusuf Cahyo Nugroho from Traveloka reveal how their single Dagger component ballooned to 17,705 lines of code across 25+ products. Their refactoring journey cut initialization time and bu...
A Day in the Life of a Mobile Product Engineer at Slack
Kevin, a Staff Engineer at Slack, shares how a distributed mobile team ships features across Vancouver and San Francisco without stepping on each other's toes. His secret? Strategic work separation and dogfoodi...
The Not-So-Hidden Cost of Sharing Code Between iOS and Android
Eyal Guthmann from Dropbox shares a hard truth: writing code once in C++ cost them more than writing it twice in native languages. Here's why their cross-platform strategy backfired.
Blibli x Android Room
Andrew Winata from Blibli shows how ditching raw SQLite queries for Room cut boilerplate code and made database operations type-safe at compile time. The migration took just a few strategic refactoring steps.
The Story of Our Big Android App Rewrite
Gojek's driver app serves 2 million+ partners who depend on it for their daily income. When the app goes down for even an hour, drivers lose significant earnings—so a rewrite was high stakes.
Coupang Android Architecture Part 3
Seongchul Park from Coupang reveals how their Android team escaped the 'big ball of mud' by rethinking how they organize code. Spoiler: it wasn't just about modules.
How To Maximize Android's UI Reusability: 5 Common Mistakes
Carlos Palacin Rubio from Groupon's Android team reveals why your "optimized" UI code is actually killing reusability. Spoiler: that single ConstraintLayout you're so proud of? It's a maintenance nightmare.
Coupang Android Architecture Part 2
Seongchul Park from Coupang reveals how they tackled a monolithic Android codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. The solution? Strategic modularization that transformed both build times and code ...
Building Reactive Component Systems with Kotlin
Zsolt Kocsi from Bumble reveals how his team tamed the chaos of reactive Android components. The secret? Two minimal interfaces and a powerful abstraction that makes subscription management disappear.
MVI Beyond State Reducers: A Modern Kotlin-Based MVI Architecture
Zsolt Kocsi from Bumble reveals how their chat module had bugs so elusive that QA could record them happening but developers could never reproduce them. The culprit? Uncontrolled state management in a massively...
A Modern Kotlin-Based MVI Architecture
Zsolt Kocsi from Badoo reveals how their chat module kept losing first messages despite a full Clean Architecture rewrite. The culprit? Uncontrolled state mutations in a massively asynchronous app.
Coupang Android Architecture Part 1
Joris Abale from Coupang reveals how they rescued a massive Android app drowning in God Activities and Fragment chaos. Their journey from architectural debt to 80% test coverage is a masterclass in pragmatic re...
5 Reasons Why N26 Is Moving to Kotlin
Pat Kua from N26 shares how the fintech company moved from Java to Kotlin for backend services. Their pragmatic, incremental approach turned a language migration into a productivity win.
Kotlin: An Exploration of Sealed Classes
James Shephard from BBC explores how Kotlin's sealed classes can fundamentally reshape your Android architecture. What if callbacks aren't the answer to async operations?
Mobile Apps: iPlayer Tech On The Move
Ross Harper from BBC's iPlayer team reveals how they ship to 45+ million downloads across thousands of device variants. Their secret? A shared codebase that builds two distinct products.