App Startup

88 articles

We track 88 App Startup articles from 53 engineering teams. Google, React Native Blog and Grab write about it most. Most posts cover Android (60), iOS (32) and React Native (17). The newest one is from October 2026.

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  1. Grab · Oct 19, 2026

    Grab Reduces ANRs by 32% and improves startup time by 35% with R8 and Profile guided optimization

    Nguyen Van Minh from Grab reveals how they turned a 10-year-old, 10-million-line codebase into a performance powerhouse.

  2. Google · Mar 7, 2026

    Instagram and Facebook Deliver Instant App Experiences on Android

    Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya reveals how Meta eliminated video loading delays for billions of users.

  3. Callstack · Dec 18, 2025

    Why You Don't Have to Minify JavaScript Code in React Native Apps

    Davyd Narbutovich from Callstack challenges a web development habit that React Native developers can skip entirely.

All App Startup articles 1–30 of 88

Grab Oct 19, 2026

Grab Reduces ANRs by 32% and improves startup time by 35% with R8 and Profile guided optimization

Expo Jun 10, 2026

How a Kotlin compiler plugin cut Android time to first render by 30%

Google Mar 7, 2026

Instagram and Facebook Deliver Instant App Experiences on Android

Expo Feb 5, 2026

How to modernize mobile retail apps with Expo

Gojek Jan 6, 2026

Project Butter: A Journey for App Performance Improvement

Callstack Dec 18, 2025

Why You Don't Have to Minify JavaScript Code in React Native Apps

Google Nov 21, 2025

Fully Optimized: Wrapping up Performance Spotlight Week

Google Nov 20, 2025

How Reddit used the R8 optimizer for high impact performance

Google Nov 19, 2025

Deeper Performance Considerations

Google Nov 17, 2025

Use R8 To Shrink, Optimize, and Speed Up Apps

Posts on Medium Oct 3, 2025

Flutter Performance Mastery: 10 Secrets to Make Your App Fly (60 FPS Guide) | Easy Flutter

Meta Oct 1, 2025

Accelerating our Android apps with Baseline Profiles

Google Sep 9, 2025

Improve App Performance With Optimized Resource Shrinking

Delivery Hero Aug 5, 2025

From Biology to Code: How Android’s Zygote Enables Fast and Efficient App Launching

Duolingo Jun 11, 2025

Duolingo's Android Performance Case Study and DAU Growth

Duolingo May 4, 2025

How We Slashed Android Startup Time by 30% with Baseline Profiles

Dream11 Mar 13, 2025

Startup Time: Your App’s Make or Break Moment | by Dream Blog | Dream Locker Room | Medium

Shopify Jan 13, 2025

Five Years of React Native at Shopify

Back Market Dec 12, 2024

How We Enhanced Our Android App’s Startup Time by Over 50%

Reddit Dec 12, 2024

Reddit Improved App Startup Speed Using Baseline Profiles & R8

Grab Nov 22, 2024

How We Reduced GrabX SDK Initialisation Time

Shopify Nov 5, 2024

Shopify completes React Native migration after a Decade

Sentry Sep 27, 2024

Mobile App Launch Profiling

Reddit Sep 17, 2024

Snappy, Not Crappy: An Android Health & Performance Journey

Glance Aug 21, 2024

How We Improved Our 1Weather Android App Cold Startup Time by Over 70%

Skeelo Jun 12, 2024

How Baseline Profiles Improve Skeelo Android App Performance

Delivery Hero Jun 5, 2024

Boost Your Android App’s Performance with Baseline Profiles

Flutter Blog May 6, 2024

Best Practices for Optimizing Flutter Web Loading Speed

Walmart Feb 29, 2024

Mastering Page Load Time: iOS App Optimization Strategies

NordVPN Nov 29, 2023

Android Developers Blog: NordVPN boosted the speed of its login user flow by 60% using Baseline Profiles

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