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Android Integration in Analytics Infrastructure
Alexander Dadukin and Dhriti Chawla reveal what it's like being the only 2 Android engineers supporting analytics infrastructure for all of Yelp. Spoiler: they can't see or touch what they build.
Introducing Skynet: Infrastructure as Code for Gojek
Gojek runs 15,000+ VMs across 250+ GCP projects serving millions of customers. How do they manage infrastructure at this scale without chaos?
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.
How Removing Caching Improved Mobile Performance by 25%
Klarna's team removed their caching layer and saw a 25% performance boost. Wait, what?
How OkCredit Android App Boosted Network Performance by 30%
OkCredit serves millions in India's Tier-2/3 cities where flaky networks are the norm. Their Android team just cut network call times by 30% with some clever client-side optimizations.
Improving the CI/CD pipeline for mobile app development
Johnson Li from Coupang reveals how migrating from Mac minis to AWS EC2 transformed their mobile CI/CD pipeline. Their team was drowning in 3,000+ daily builds with 1-hour wait times.
Hermes Engine Becomes React Native Default
React Native just made a massive default change that could speed up your app launches and shrink your bundle size. Here's what the benchmarks show.
How We Improved Our Android Apps Performance by Up to 24%
Mercado Libre's Android team achieved a 24% performance boost without using Google's recommended Baseline Profiles or Macrobenchmark tools. How did they pull it off?
Android UI Development with Jetpack
Neil Davies from Just Eat Takeaway reveals how his team eliminated manual theme updates across multiple Android apps. Their solution? A design token system that cut redesign time by 80%.
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.
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.
How OkCredit Android App Improved Cold Startup by 70%
OkCredit slashed their Android app cold startup time by 70%. Here's the engineering playbook that made it happen.
Why Mobile Apps Performance Matters
Mercado Libre's mobile apps serve 4.5 billion active devices. A Galaxy A10 might take 5 seconds to load a screen—or just 1.67 seconds, depending on conditions.
Scaling Android Apps with Gradle Build Types and Product Flavors
Sahil Jain from OLX reveals how they manage multiple market versions of their Android app without maintaining separate codebases. The secret? Strategic use of Gradle's build configuration.
Faster media delivery to optimize app performance
LazyPay was serving unoptimized images directly from S3, killing app performance and burning bandwidth. Their migration to Cloudinary cut image sizes by 70%.
Async Jersey + Kotlin Coroutines
ClassPass engineers were hitting a wall: their Jersey-based APIs couldn't handle traffic spikes without exhausting thread pools. The culprit? Synchronous request processing blocking precious I/O threads.
How Server-Driven UI Is Helping Frontend Engineers Scale Impact
Robinhood was taking weeks and multiple engineers just to make simple UI changes. Their solution? Server-Driven UI that lets them ship to all platforms without app releases.
The Benefits and Challenges of Android Dynamic Feature in Tokopedia
Tokopedia cut their Android app download size by 10% using Dynamic Features. But the implementation wasn't as simple as Google's docs suggested.
Giving Android a security boost (Part Two)
Zomato's Android team breaks down SSL certificate pinning: the security feature that could brick your app if done wrong.
Managing Deep Scope Hierarchies in Large Codebases
Uber rewrote their Android rider app in 2016 and made an architectural choice that most Android teams avoid: deeply nested dependency injection scopes.
Giving Android a security boost (Part One)
Zomato's Android team is tackling a critical vulnerability that most apps ignore. Your encrypted HTTPS traffic might not be as secure as you think.
Evolution of Android Message Passing Mechanism
Ju Cai from Coupang reveals how their Android app went from Stone Age message passing to a custom LiveData-based event bus that cut development time in half. The journey through three architectural eras offers ...
Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases: Modernization
Slack just wrapped a massive mobile refactor. The results? 68% of iOS and 92% of Android codebases modernized, with CI times slashed by over 60%.
Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases: Modularization
Slack's mobile codebase was slowing teams down. Their solution? Break the monolith into hundreds of independent modules.
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.
How We Applied Client-Side Caching
DoorDash makes millions of ML predictions per second, but their Redis-based feature store was becoming a massive cost and scalability bottleneck. Could client-side caching be the answer?
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.
One Activity to Rule Them All: Reducing Crashes in the Etsy App
Etsy was getting 1,000 Out of Memory crashes per day on Android. The culprit? A navigation architecture from 2012 that couldn't handle modern browsing behavior.