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Color Your Apps in React Native Using Material Palette
Want your React Native app to automatically match its UI colors to any image? There's now a library that taps into Android's Material Design color extraction magic.
Better List Views
React Native just killed ListView. The new list components solve memory leaks, stale rows, and ignored bugs that plagued mobile developers for years.
Using Native Driver For Animated
Your React Native animations are probably running on the wrong thread. Here's how one config flag can eliminate frame drops when JavaScript gets blocked.
Epoxy: Airbnb's View Architecture on Android
Eli Hart from Airbnb reveals how they eliminated RecyclerView boilerplate while building complex screens with 8+ view types. Their solution handles diffing, animations, and state management automatically.
Improving Chat Rendering Performance
Twitch was dropping frames like crazy. Chat messages were taking 200ms to render when they had just 16.667ms to work with for smooth 60fps video.
Handling Orientation Changes on Android
Android orientation changes are one of the most frustrating challenges for mobile engineers. When users rotate their device, Android destroys and recreates your Activities and Fragments, wiping out all member v...
Discover Pinterest Mobile Engineering and Design
Pinterest engineers rebuilt their mobile onboarding experience and saw engagement metrics jump across the board. With 80% of users on mobile, they had to get this right.
High Performance WebViews
John Bito from Zillow reveals how they cut home listing load times in half while making it easier to ship features across iOS, Android, and web. The secret? Rethinking how WebViews work in native apps.
Building Carousel Part III: Drawing Images on Screen
Tina Wen from Dropbox tackles a deceptively hard problem: how do you render tens of thousands of photos at 60fps without turning your app into a slideshow of gray squares?
Building Carousel Part I: How We Made Our Networked Mobile App Feel Fast and Local
Dropbox's Carousel team faced a brutal truth: their photo app was slower than local galleries, and users noticed. No one wants to wait for network requests just to delete a photo.
Android Staggered Grid Implementation
Deniz Veli from Etsy tackled a problem every Android dev knows: GridView and ListView just don't cut it for complex layouts. So they built their own.