Mobile Web
Articles on mobile web performance, Progressive Web Apps, responsive design, and browser optimization.
Articles about Mobile Web (41)
Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0
Elvira Mustafina from JetBrains just dropped Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0, and it's solving one of the most annoying pain points in cross-platform development. Three different @Preview annotations? Gone.
Fine-tuning vision-language models on memory-constrained devices
Rupak Vignesh Swaminathan and team from Amazon AGI just solved a major headache for mobile AI: how do you fine-tune vision-language models on devices that can't handle backpropagation? Their answer challenges c...
Going Universal: From a brownfield React Native and Next.js stack to one Expo app
Gunnar Torfi shares how a single developer maintained 40+ mobile screens AND a full web app by merging them into one universal codebase. No big rewrite required.
Flutter for Enterprises: Everything CTOs and Engineering Leaders Need to Know
Very Good Ventures reveals why global leaders like Disney, Toyota, and BMW are ditching fragmented native development for a single framework. The shift isn't just technical—it's transformational.
Compose Multiplatform 1.9.0 - Compose for Web Beta
Ekaterina Volodko and Alejandra Pedroza Marchena from JetBrains announce a game-changer: Compose Multiplatform for web just hit Beta, powered by Wasm. Your Android Compose skills now work in the browser with mi...
Walmart Journey to Optimize Web Performance and Drive Business Growth
Ravi Roshan from Walmart reveals how his team turned web performance into a revenue driver. The results? A 40% faster load time and a complete SEO transformation that moved every product page from 'Poor' to 'Go...
Cross-Platform Web3 dApps With React Native
Callstack explores how React Native is becoming the unexpected bridge between traditional mobile development and the Web3 ecosystem. Building decentralized apps just got a lot more practical.
10 Reasons To Choose Flutter for Your Mobile App
Very Good Ventures makes the case for Flutter with data that's hard to ignore: 93% developer satisfaction and 24% user growth in a single year. If you're evaluating cross-platform frameworks, this breakdown cut...
Unfold's Modern Mobile Release Process And The Subtle Art Of Making Them Boring
Alan Cooke from Squarespace reveals how Unfold turned chaotic mobile releases into boring background events. Boring is the goal, and here's why that's brilliant.
Best Practices for Optimizing Flutter Web Loading Speed
Cheng Lin from Google's Flutter team tackles the elephant in the room: Flutter web apps are slow to load. Here's how to fix it.
Fullstack TypeScript: Reintroducing AWS Amplify
AWS just rebuilt Amplify from the ground up, and this time everything runs on TypeScript. If you've bounced off Amplify before, this Gen 2 release might change your mind.
Building AI-powered games with Gemini and Flutter
Very Good Ventures took the stage at Google Cloud Next 2024 to show how Flutter and Gemini are changing the game development playbook. Literally.
Benefits of Flutter for Cross-Platform App Development
Still running separate iOS and Android teams in 2024? The economics of native development just stopped making sense. Here's why Flutter is quietly becoming the default choice for engineering leaders who need to...
Learn About the Leading Multi-Platform Frameworks
Still running separate iOS and Android teams in 2024? VGV breaks down why Flutter and React Native are replacing the old playbook for multi-platform development.
Introducing the Next Generation of AWS Amplify's Fullstack Development Experience
AWS Amplify just killed the CLI-first workflow. After 6 years and feedback from hundreds of thousands of developers, they're betting everything on TypeScript.
Developer Experience Best Practices for React Native Web3 DApps
Thiago Brezinski explores why building Web3 apps in React Native hits a wall with Wagmi's browser-first architecture. His solution? WalletConnect's Web3Modal bridges the gap.
Intersection Observer API for Element Visibility Detection and Improved Performance
Pepperfry's engineering team was facing system hangs and 28% CPU usage just from scrolling. The culprit? Traditional scroll event listeners that were choking their main thread.
NEW: Lazy loading & nested query predicates for AWS Amplify DataStore
AWS Amplify just shipped three game-changing features that make querying relational data feel less like a chore and more like writing plain JavaScript. If you've ever wrestled with loading nested data in offlin...
App Performance Monitoring Strategies and Tools
Your app crashes in production and you have no idea why. Callstack breaks down the monitoring strategies that catch issues before your users do.
[Mobile Web] DoorDash's Lessons on Improving Performance on High-Traffic Web Pages
DoorDash users were waiting up to 10 seconds for pages to load. Here's how their team turned performance audits into measurable conversion wins.
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.
Dê seus primeiros passos em Mobile
Lilia Correa from Mercado Libre reveals what it takes to break into mobile development at Latin America's largest tech company. Their IT Bootcamp transforms junior developers into production-ready mobile engine...
Optimising Core Web Vitals at Carousell
Shubham Desale from Carousell improved all Core Web Vitals by at least 40%. The secret? Knowing when NOT to follow best practices.
A Tokopedia Mobile Web Performance Case Study | by Aatif Bandey | Tokopedia Engineering | Medium
Tokopedia's mobile web was scoring 67-71 on PageSpeed during their biggest sale event. With most traffic on 3G, that meant 5-6 second load times when milliseconds matter most.
Complete guide to full-stack CI/CD workflows with AWS Amplify
Nikhil Swaminathan from AWS Amplify just made full-stack deployments dramatically simpler. No more merge conflicts from generated config files, no more manual backend syncing across environments.
Achieving 90% Mobile Web Performance at Tokopedia
Tokopedia slashed their mobile homepage JavaScript from 320kB to just 37kB. Here's how they did it without rebuilding everything.
Announcing Flutter 2.2 at Google I/O 2021
Tim Sneath from Google reveals Flutter 2.2 just hit a major milestone: it's now the #1 cross-platform framework, powering 1 in 8 new Play Store apps. The momentum is undeniable.
BBC World Service & Web Performance
Chris Hinds from BBC World Service reveals how they migrated 31 million weekly readers to a modern React app and achieved performance gains of up to 83%. The results? A complete transformation of one of the wor...
Performance testing on the web
Tianguang Zhang from Flutter reveals how to catch performance bugs before they reach production. His automated testing approach measures frame rendering down to the millisecond.
Flutter Web: Navigating URLs Using Named Routes
Per Classon from Google's Flutter team tackles a problem every web developer faces: making URLs work seamlessly in single-page apps. His solution turns Flutter's mobile routing into a powerful web navigation sy...
Embedding Flutter Applications in Websites Using DartPad
Jose Alba from Google's Material team shows how to turn your Flutter apps into embeddable web demos. No hosting required—just GitHub and DartPad.
Native lazy loading has arrived!
Andy Potts from BBC cut page load times in half with a single HTML attribute. No JavaScript libraries, no complex code—just one word added to image tags.
Mobile Web Performance (Caviar)
Caviar's mobile site was bleeding conversions. Their homepage took nearly 10 seconds to load, and 53% of users were bouncing before seeing a single restaurant.
How We Made Carousell's Mobile Web Experience 3x Faster
Stacey Tay from Carousell reveals how her team achieved a 3x speed improvement on mobile web—and turned it into a 63% traffic surge. The secret? A ruthless performance budget and smart PWA architecture.
Using Docker to build a testing infrastructure for web UI and mobile
LINE Engineering ditched expensive cloud testing services and built their own Docker-based infrastructure. The result? Flexible, cost-effective testing for both web and mobile.
Optimizing Frame Performance for Mobile Devices
Charles Siebert, Branden Berlin, and Yipeng Song from Oregon State University crashed mobile browsers repeatedly while stress-testing A-Frame VR scenes. What they learned could save your next WebVR project from...
Unlocking Test Performance: Migrating from Mocha to Jest
Gary Borton from Airbnb reveals how switching test frameworks slashed their CI build time by 62%. What started as a 12+ minute ordeal became a 4.5 minute sprint—and nearly eliminated test flakiness.
LinkedIn Lite: A Lightweight Mobile Web Experience
LinkedIn shipped a 75KB mobile experience that loaded in under 6 seconds on 100 Kbps connections. Six engineers built it in four months.
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.
Animating the Mobile Web
Zain M., Engineering Intern at Yelp, turned a choppy mobile web animation into a buttery-smooth 60fps experience. The secret? Ditching the obvious CSS properties and rethinking how browsers handle rendering.
Improving Mobile Web Performance and Standards
Chris Heilmann from Mozilla called on developers to help shape the future of mobile web standards back in 2012. The questions they asked then still echo in today's cross-platform debates.