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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.
React Native 0.63 Release
React Native just fixed the two biggest complaints from mobile teams: cryptic error messages and interactions that scream 'this isn't a native app.'
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.
Making Slack Faster By Being Lazy
Slack cut load times by 65% for large teams by doing less work, not more. Their secret? Strategic laziness.
Faster testing on Android with Mobile Test Orchestrator
LinkedIn's Android test suite hit tens of thousands of tests, pushing execution times into the danger zone. Developer productivity was tanking.
App Size Reduction at Microsoft SwiftKey
Microsoft SwiftKey slashed their Android app size by 50% and boosted install conversions. Here's the playbook they used to get there.
WebRTC on Android: Enabling Hardware Encoding Across Devices
Ivan Dyatlov from Bumble Tech discovered that WebRTC's H.264 hardware encoding failed on most Android 5.x devices despite official support claims. His deep dive into codec implementations reveals why video call...
Automation for WebView Testing
Ferawati Hartanti Pratiwi from Bukalapak breaks down WebView automation with Appium. If you've struggled with context switching between native and web elements in mobile testing, this practical guide cuts throu...
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.
Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices
Spotify lifted the 10,000 Liked Songs limit. But that simple feature request triggered a year-long architecture overhaul affecting 100,000 lines of code.
Find and Fix Issues with Android Studio Static Code Analysis
Brian Plummer from OkCupid reveals how their team uses Android Studio's built-in static analysis to systematically improve code quality. But running the tool is the easy part—merging those changes without break...
How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
Spotify cut iOS pre-merge CI times by 75% with one infrastructure change. Here's how they validated and scaled their approach.
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?
Making Airbnb's Android App More Accessible
Airbnb's Android app serves millions of travelers daily. But how many users were being left behind due to accessibility barriers?
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.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 6)
Airbnb's Android tests take 2 hours to run but finish in minutes. Here's the CI infrastructure that makes it possible.
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 5)
Airbnb automated screenshot testing across thousands of Android screens to catch UI regressions that manual QA kept missing. Here's how they built it.
How Apollo Android Client Cache Works at Vrbo
Vrbo eliminated loading screens in their Android app entirely. Here's how they used Apollo GraphQL's normalized cache to make navigation feel instant.
React Native 0.62 Release
React Native 0.62 just shipped with Flipper debugging built in by default. This release fundamentally changes how mobile developers debug cross-platform apps.
How to Fix App Quality Issues with Android Vitals (Part 2)
Your Android app's crash rate could be killing your Play Store rankings without you realizing it. Google's Android Vitals dashboard now has powerful new features to help you catch issues before users do.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 4)
Airbnb's Android tests were failing randomly. The culprit? Everything from cached drawables to delayed runnables creating unpredictable test behavior.
How to Fix App Quality Issues with Android Vitals (Part 1)
Over 40% of one-star reviews on Google Play mention app stability issues. Google's Android Vitals can help you fix them before users bail.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 3)
Airbnb's Android team built a custom testing framework that runs thousands of automated tests across fragments without writing repetitive test code. Here's the architecture that makes it possible.
Reducing Our Build Time by 50%
Gojek's iOS team was bleeding 11 minutes per build. 100 engineers, 350 daily CI pipelines, and a productivity crisis that demanded action.
How a One-line Change Decreased Our Build Times by 99%
Pinterest found a single tweak that slashed their build times by a jaw-dropping 99%.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 2)
Airbnb's Android team was drowning in manual QA and flaky Espresso tests. Then they built a testing framework that changed everything.
Better Android Testing at Airbnb (Part 1)
Airbnb built a system that automatically tests every click in their Android app without writing a single Espresso test. Here's how they turned interaction testing from tedious to automatic.
Our Android testing process
Headspace went from <20% test coverage to 80%+ during a complete app rewrite. Here's how they built a testing strategy that actually works.
Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs | by Netflix Technology Blog | Netflix TechBlog
Netflix just brought AV1 streaming to TVs, marking a major milestone for the royalty-free codec. The result? Measurably better streaming for millions of members.