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Android engineering articles 871–900 of 942
The Mobile Device Lab at the Prineville Data Center
Facebook built a 2,000-device testing lab inside a data center. The journey from tangled cables to custom EMI racks is a masterclass in scaling mobile performance testing.
Getting to Slack Faster with Incremental Boot
Slack was making 4.2 million users wait through loading screens every single day. Time to fix that.
Android Testing with Mocking
Abha Gupta from Walmart Global Tech tackles one of Android testing's toughest challenges: running mock servers inside your APK for reliable device farm testing. No external dependencies, no flaky tests.
Better Android Intents With Dart Henson
Daniel Molinero Reguera from Groupon reveals how traditional Android Intent creation is silently breaking apps at runtime. His team built a solution that catches errors at compile time instead.
Android: An Exercise in "Ship It"
Airbnb rebuilt their entire Android app in weeks to meet a hard Google I/O deadline. The catch? They couldn't throw away the old codebase.
React Native: A Year in Review
One year after open sourcing React Native, Facebook dropped a bombshell at F8: Microsoft and Samsung are bringing the framework to Windows, Xbox, and SmartTVs. The mobile-first framework just became platform-ag...
React Native: A Year in Review
Martin Konicek reveals how a 2013 hackathon project became a framework that changed mobile development forever. One year after open-sourcing, React Native hit 30,000 GitHub stars and attracted 650+ contributors...
Reproducible Android Builds
Signal just made their Android builds reproducible, and they're practically begging you not to send them panicked encrypted emails about it. This is transparency done right.
Dive Into React Native Performance
The React Native team made their app startup twice as fast. Here's how they tackled one of mobile's most critical performance challenges.
Introducing Hot Reloading
React Native just solved one of mobile development's most frustrating problems: losing your app state every time you make a code change. Their new Hot Reloading feature keeps your app running while injecting up...
Open Sourcing LightCycle: Android Lifecycle Management
Guillaume Lung from SoundCloud just open-sourced LightCycle, a library that tackles one of Android's messiest problems: lifecycle management sprawl in Activities and Fragments.
Integrating Android Projects with Codecov for Coverage Tracking
Still manually checking code coverage on Android PRs? There's a better way that turns coverage tracking into an automated gatekeeper for your codebase.
The LinkedIn Android Data Pipeline
LinkedIn rebuilt their Android data pipeline from scratch for their flagship app. The result? A system that handles everything from feed updates to messaging while keeping data consistent across screens.
Failing Fast with Reliable and Actionable System-Level Tests
Skyscanner's test suite had a 99% pass rate. Sounds great, right? Wrong. Those false failures were costing hours of productivity and masking real production issues.
Solving the Problem of One Billion Computations
Skyscanner needed to store 1.6 billion weights to rank hotel prices. Their in-memory approach couldn't scale, so they turned to AWS.
3x3: Speeding Up Mobile Releases
LinkedIn went from monthly releases to shipping mobile code 3x per day. Here's how they automated their way out of a month-long release cycle.
Mobile A/B Testing at Quora
Tommy MacWilliam from Quora reveals how they A/B test mobile UX without waiting weeks for App Store approval. The secret? A hybrid architecture that lets them iterate at web speed.
Android's Multidex Slows Down App Startup
Michael Ma from Groupon discovered that enabling multidex increased their Android app startup time by 15% on pre-Lollipop devices. Here's how his team clawed that performance back.
Making React Native Apps Accessible
Facebook's Ads Manager app demonstrates how React Native's Accessibility API makes mobile apps usable for everyone, including people with vision loss. Here's how they built it.
Functional Reactive Programming On Mobile: A Rosetta Stone
Nick Tinsley from Squarespace shows how the same reactive programming patterns work across iOS, Android, and React Native. Think Excel formulas, but for your entire mobile app.
React Native for Android
Facebook just dropped React Native for Android, completing the cross-platform puzzle that started with iOS earlier in 2015. Their first test? Building a production app used by millions of advertisers.
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...
Gradle Daemon Support for Faster Build Compilation
Andrey Breslav from JetBrains tackles one of mobile development's biggest pain points: slow build times that kill developer productivity.
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.
Mobile Performance: Tooling Infrastructure at Facebook
Facebook processes thousands of mobile code changes weekly. How do they catch performance regressions before users feel the pain?
React Native: Bringing Modern Web Techniques to Mobile
Facebook reveals why React Native emerged from a simple realization: the principles that made React successful on web could transform mobile development. This 2015 post captures the pivotal moment when declarat...
Crittercism: Solving Mobile Performance Issues for One Billion Users | AWS Startups Blog
Crittercism handles more traffic than Google Search (50K vs 40K requests/second) with just 3 DevOps engineers. How do they pull this off?
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.
Preserving User Context During Android App Installation
Ever lose a user the moment they install your app? That frustrating context loss between web and app has a surprisingly simple fix.
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?