Android × UI Performance
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Android UI Performance articles 61–90 of 101
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.
How Tinder Solves Complex Lottie Localizations with Server Driven UI
Tinder was manually creating 40+ localized Lottie animations for every campaign. Their solution? A clever architecture that reduced it to just one.
Custom color elevation effect in Compose
Alexandre Bruneau from Medium Engineering discovered that Jetpack Compose's elevation overlay only works with default Material theme colors. His workaround unlocks custom color elevation for any design system.
Airbnb's Page Performance Score on Android
Airbnb moved beyond Time To Interactive to measure what users actually see. Their Page Performance Score tracks visual wait time, not just code execution.
The state of managing state (with Compose)
Cash App's Jake Wharton just open-sourced their solution to a problem every mobile team faces: state management code that's impossible to read.
Building Android Conversation Bubbles
Mathias Roth from Slack reveals how a hardcoded Android display name prefix saved their Conversation Bubbles implementation. What started as straightforward API work turned into a detective story involving work...
A Deep Dive into Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System
Airbnb ships features simultaneously across web, iOS, and Android without waiting for app store releases. Their secret? Server-driven UI.
Improving Platform Channel Performance in Flutter
Aaron Clarke from Google's Flutter team eliminated unnecessary memory copies in platform channels and achieved up to 52% performance gains. Here's how he debugged his way through Objective-C class clusters and ...
Designing a Custom Progress bar with timed breaks in Android
Sarina Dhamija from OLX Engineering tackles a tricky Android UI challenge: building a circular progress bar that shows pause breaks during video recording. Think Instagram Stories meets custom video capture.
Using Android Screenshot Tests To Verify View Correctness
Emily Fujimoto from Thumbtack reveals how her team caught critical layout bugs that traditional testing completely missed. The solution? Screenshot tests that verify what your UI actually looks like, not just w...
How we achieved a 6x reduction of ANRs - Part 2: Fixing ANRs
Bumble's Android team slashed their ANR (Application Not Responding) rate by 6x. Here's how they debugged one of mobile's most frustrating problems.
How we achieved a 6x reduction of ANRs - Part 1: Collecting Data
Bumble's Android app was bleeding users to ANR dialogs. Their ANR rate sat above Google Play's threshold, threatening search rankings and user trust.
Pre-submit UI Tests at Pinterest
Pinterest's UI test suite was failing more than 50% of the time. Engineers were drowning in false positives, and tests had lost all credibility.
Improve Android App Screen Launch Times Using LazyLifecycle Callbacks
Microsoft Teams Android engineers faced a critical problem: heavy initialization code in lifecycle callbacks was killing app launch times. Their solution? Get lazy.
Custom View from Scratch Part III: Performance and Optimisation
Eugene Zubkov from Revolut hit a wall building a custom Android chart: it literally disappeared due to texture size limits. His debugging journey reveals critical performance traps most Android devs don't see c...
Motion Engineering at Scale
Airbnb was shipping hundreds of features, but custom animations were getting cut due to complexity. Their solution? A declarative framework that reduced transition code from hundreds of lines to just a few.
Improved Localization with Custom TextView Effects
Anton Begeima from OkCupid's engineering team turned a localization nightmare into an elegant solution. Instead of managing separate images for every language, his team built a custom TextView that handles text...
Clean Android WebView Caching
Microsoft Teams Android engineers cut WebView initialization time by 70% using a clever caching technique. Here's how they avoided memory leaks while sharing WebViews across activities.
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.
Measuring Frame Rate Performance Per Fragment in Android
Wesley Ong from Grindr Engineering tackles a blind spot in Android performance monitoring: Firebase tracks frame rates per Activity, but what about the Fragments inside them?
Bank of America Amps Up In-App Experiences
Bank of America cut their mobile app response time in half. Here's how they did it with a simple API consolidation strategy.
Madman: An Open-Source Ads Framework for Android
Anirudh Ramanan from Flipkart reveals how Google's IMA library was causing 15% of users to bail before videos even started. Their solution? Build their own ads framework from scratch.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 4: Testing ViewModels)
Airbnb built a testing framework so elegant that their ViewModels tests read like plain English. Here's how they made testing actually enjoyable.
Building High-Performance Mobile Applications at Netflix
Netflix hosted their first mobile engineering event to tackle a problem every mobile team faces: building performant apps on resource-constrained devices.
Implementing Infinite Scrolling Efficiently
Phong Lam from Walmart Global Tech tackles a problem every mobile dev faces: infinite scroll that doesn't tank performance. His solution? Stop rendering everything and start being strategic.
Universal Links for Android and iOS
Konstantin Yakushev from Bumble Tech reveals the brutal truth about universal links: Apple and Google's 'simple' solution is riddled with undocumented bugs that break user experience in shocking ways.
Android Search Performance Improvements (Part 2)
Yelp's Android team cut search render time nearly in half while slashing dropped frames by 48%. Here's how they did it.
Improved Mobile Performance
Teamweek just made a bold move: they killed their native mobile apps. Instead of maintaining separate iOS and Android codebases, they bet everything on a mobile-optimized web experience.
Multi-threaded rendering on Android (with Litho & Infer)
Facebook's mobile team tackled one of Android's toughest performance challenges: keeping UI rendering smooth without blocking the main thread.
Multithreaded Rendering on Android with Litho and Infer
Meta's News Feed team solved what many thought impossible: smooth multithreaded rendering on Android at massive scale.