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Flow testing with Turbine
Cash App just open-sourced Turbine 1.0, solving one of the trickiest parts of Kotlin coroutines: testing Flows without the headache.
Unit Testing Android Apps with MockK
Emre Muhammet Engin from Getir tackles a truth bomb: if your code is hard to test, your design probably sucks. His deep dive into MockK shows Android developers how to fix that.
Distributed Load Testing Using Locust
Glance's engineering team scaled their load testing from basic scripts to a full Kubernetes-powered distributed system. Here's how they did it with Locust.
Benchmarking your Mobile App with Rooted Android Private Devices and AWS Device Farm | Front-End Web & Mobile
AWS Device Farm now supports rooted Android devices, unlocking granular performance benchmarking that was previously impossible at scale.
Using Gradle Enterprise to Detect Configuration Regressions in an Android Gradle Build
Premise's mobile team caught a sneaky 3x build time regression that only showed up in CI. Here's how they hunted it down using Gradle Enterprise.
Testing Android UI Performance Part 2
You found the jank in your Android app. Now what? Most teams stop at identifying the problem—but that's only half the battle.
How We Improved Testing Processes Using Ephemeral Environment
Swiggy was missing production deadlines because their UAT environments were constantly unstable or unavailable. Sound familiar?
Testing Android UI Performance
Glance's engineering team serves 100M+ users where visual experience is everything. When UI performance drops, users notice immediately—and they leave.
Load Testing for 2022 Spotify Wrapped
Spotify Wrapped serves 150M+ users in a single morning. How do you load test for that kind of thundering herd?
Building a Multi-Pipeline CI Setup for Running Automated Tests in GitLab
Gojek's engineering team cracked a common CI/CD headache: how do you run automated tests from a separate repo without creating pipeline chaos?
Get you your Android Performance Score with Flashlight
BAM just launched Flashlight, a Lighthouse-inspired tool that finally brings performance scoring to mobile apps. Android developers now have a standardized way to measure app performance.
Gradle Incremental Test Runner
Swiggy's Android team was stuck in a painful cycle: rebasing PRs, waiting hours for full test suites to run, then doing it all over again. One frustrated engineer decided to fix it over a weekend.
Detecting Android Memory Leaks in Production
Lyft discovered memory leaks affecting only 1% of users—issues that would never show up in local testing. Here's how they built a production monitoring system to catch what profiling tools miss.
Optimizing Testing for Server-Driven Mobile Development at Strava
Strava's Android team hit a wall: testing server-driven UI meant wrestling with Charles Proxy crashes, EOF errors, and 3-4 minute build times. An intern decided to fix it.
Conquering Our Android Crash Count
Strava thought they had a few hundred crashes per day. Crashlytics revealed they were missing 42,000 crashes per week.
How We Reduced Our ANR by Three Times
OkCredit slashed their ANR rate by 67% and cold startup time by 70%. Here's how they debugged one of Android's most frustrating problems.
Detecting App Cloning & Location Spoofing on Android
Swiggy discovered 8% of their delivery drivers were running cloned apps and spoofing GPS locations. This was breaking their live order tracking system and creating chaos for customers.
Performing Due Diligence As Android Engineers
Ishan Khanna from Tinder shares a hard-earned lesson: that shiny third-party SDK could be a ticking time bomb for your app. Here's the framework his team uses to avoid disaster.
How We Made Unit Testing Part of Our Engineering Culture
Instawork runs over 1 million tests daily in their CI pipeline. Here's how they made unit testing a core engineering practice, not an afterthought.
Automating Mobile Event Verification
Swiggy was drowning in analytics chaos. Thousands of events per session, scattered specs across docs, and manual verification eating up engineering time.
Android UI Testing with Firebase
Turo's Android team hit a wall: their single-device test setup couldn't keep up with their growing UI test suite. Hours of wait time for a single test run wasn't going to cut it.
Rendering Performance Monitoring on Android
Booking.com's Android team built their own rendering performance monitoring system. Here's why Google Play Console metrics weren't enough.
Build a Flutter app with Very Good CLI and Supabase
Very Good Ventures shows how to build a production-ready Flutter app with Supabase that achieves 100% test coverage. This isn't your typical Firebase clone tutorial.
Continuous Load Testing
Slack's engineering team ran into a classic performance testing problem: spinning up load tests was so time-consuming that teams avoided doing it. Their solution? Never stop testing.
Stop Wasting Time on Unit Testing: How Tokopedia Achieved 8X Faster Results | by Andrean Lay | Tokopedia Engineering | Medium
Tokopedia's iOS team was drowning in 30-minute unit test cycles with 65 developers fighting over 9 CI/CD machines. They cut that time by 8X.
Introducing Ruler: Our Tool for Measuring Android App Size
Spotify just open-sourced the tool that helped them slash their Android app size by 9%. Here's why app size matters more than you think.
How We Solve the Sideloading Crash After App Bundle Implementation
Tokopedia shipped Android App Bundles and immediately hit a wall: mystery crashes on random devices. The culprit? Sideloaded APKs missing critical resources.
Jetpack Compose UI Testing Strategies
Karan Saimbhi from Just Eat Takeaway compares testing Jetpack Compose to watching Back to the Future on different formats—the content stays the same, but the method evolves. Here's what changes when you move fr...
Preparing Your App for iOS 15 and Android 12
New OS releases can break your app overnight. The React Native team shares critical changes in iOS 15 and Android 12 that could impact your users.
Kotlin Multiplatform: Shared Test Resources
Victoria Gonda from Square tackles a tricky KMP problem: Kotlin/Native doesn't support I/O, yet your shared tests need to read fixture files. Here's the workaround that makes it possible.