Build Time

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Articles covering build system optimization, incremental compilation, modularization, and toolchain improvements to speed up mobile builds.

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Expo Jan 28, 2026

The solo dev playbook: ship faster with Expo, EAS Build, and OTA Updates

Kotlin Blog Jan 16, 2026

Update Your Projects for AGP 9

Google Dec 4, 2025

Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop

Callstack Nov 25, 2025

Integrating Swift Package Manager with React Native Libraries

Posts on Medium Nov 24, 2025

Core/Core-Impl Pattern: Build-Performance Superpower of DI & Gradle

Pinterest Nov 10, 2025

How Pinterest Cut Android Testing CI Build Times by 36%+

Grab Nov 6, 2025

Grab’s Mac Cloud Exit supercharges macOS CI/CD

PickMe Nov 3, 2025

Migrating from KAPT to KSP: A Complete Guide to Kotlin's Future

Atlassian Oct 1, 2025

DevMate: Accelerating React Native Development at Atlassian

Callstack Sep 16, 2025

Debugging Android Connectivity Issues with Metro Bundler

Infinite Red Sep 8, 2025

Expo SDK 54: Better. Faster. Simpler.

Posts on Reddit Aug 1, 2025

Our Buildkite Brings All the Devs to the Yard: (Re)Building Reddit Mobile CI in 2025

Callstack Jun 19, 2025

Caching React Native Builds on S3 and R2

Slice May 30, 2025

The Journey to Faster Android Builds: How Slice Slashed Build Times

Tinder May 23, 2025

How We Decomposed Tinder's Monolith

Swift.org Blog Mar 31, 2025

Swift 6.1 Released

Infinite Red Mar 11, 2025

Transitive Dependencies and React Native Autolinking

Swift.org Blog Feb 1, 2025

The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies

Teknasyon Jan 22, 2025

Code Optimization with ProGuard and R8 in Android

Duolingo Dec 18, 2024

How we sped up Android and iOS builds by 68% on CI

Infinite Red Dec 5, 2024

Automated EAS Updates in a bare React Native app with Multiple Flavors & Schemes

Google Oct 31, 2024

Android SDK Release Update

GitHub Jun 3, 2024

How GitHub reduced testing time for iOS apps with new runner features

Glovo Dec 18, 2023

Slashing Lead Times by 30%: The Impact of Using Explicit Types in JVM

React Native Blog Dec 6, 2023

React Native 0.73 Debugging Improvements and Stable Symlinks

Revolut Dec 5, 2023

Evolution of Translations Management for Android

Glovo Nov 6, 2023

Accelerate Your Android Development: Essential Tips to Minimize Gradle Build Time (Part II of II)

Glovo Oct 23, 2023

Accelerate Your Android Development: Top Techniques to Reduce Gradle Build Time (Part I of II)

Cash App Oct 12, 2023

From 30 Minutes Down to 10: Taming our Monolith's CI Build Times

Square Jul 27, 2023

Supercharging Continuous Integration with Gradle

Thumbtack Jul 12, 2023

Migrating to Apollo 1.0 for iOS

React Native Blog Jun 21, 2023

Metro Package Exports and Symlinks in React Native 0.72

React Native Blog Jun 21, 2023

Package Exports Support in React Native

Instagram Jun 6, 2023

Instant Feedback in iOS Engineering Workflows

Premise Jun 6, 2023

Using Gradle Enterprise to Detect Configuration Regressions in an Android Gradle Build

Just Eat Jan 25, 2023

Migrating to Swift Package Manager

Swiggy Jan 24, 2023

Gradle Incremental Test Runner

Square Jan 12, 2023

Android Studio Electric Eel Release Celebration

Square Dec 13, 2022

Saving 5,400 Hours a Year: Developer Productivity with Gradle

Cash App Nov 21, 2022

How We Sped Up Zipline Hot Reload

Swiggy Oct 25, 2022

Optimizing Configuration Time for Android Apps that Use React Native

Zomato Sep 13, 2022

How We Improved Our iOS App Compile Time by 99%

Square Sep 12, 2022

First Annual Bazel iOS Con 2022

Traveloka Sep 8, 2022

Automating Android Build Benchmarking with Gradle Profiler

Swiggy Aug 23, 2022

Build Time Optimizations in Xcode

Zomato Aug 16, 2022

How We Cut the Build Time for Our Android App by 95%

Swiggy Jun 7, 2022

Advanced Techniques to Speed Up Compile Time in Xcode

OLX May 31, 2022

Scaling Android Apps with Gradle Build Types and Product Flavors

Swiggy May 10, 2022

Mobile DevOps Journey: Accelerating iOS Development at Swiggy with Bitrise (Episode 2)

Tokopedia Apr 19, 2022

Stop Wasting Time on Unit Testing: How Tokopedia Achieved 8X Faster Results | by Andrean Lay | Tokopedia Engineering | Medium

Dropbox Mar 29, 2022

Introducing Focus: A New Open Source Gradle Plugin

Doist Feb 15, 2022

Continuous Deployment for iOS

Square Jan 27, 2022

Getting Square's iOS Build Ready for Apple Silicon with Bazel

Reddit Nov 22, 2021

Mobile Developer Productivity at Reddit

BlaBlaCar Nov 18, 2021

Reducing Android Build Time at Scale

Tokopedia Nov 16, 2021

How Tokopedia Achieved 1000% Faster iOS Build Time

Spotify Nov 16, 2021

Introducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%

Swift.org Blog Oct 13, 2021

Swift DocC Documentation Tool

Doist Oct 13, 2021

We release our Android apps every day (Android App Continuous Deployment)

Airbnb Oct 5, 2021

Designing for Productivity in a Large-Scale iOS Application

Traveloka Sep 29, 2021

Identifying and Handling Android Build Memory Issues

Swift.org Blog Jun 7, 2021

Swift Package Collections

Bumble Apr 14, 2021

Scaling iOS at Bumble (Part 2)

Bumble Mar 31, 2021

Scaling iOS at Bumble (Part 1)

Pinterest Feb 18, 2021

How We Designed Our Continuous Integration System to Be More Than 50% Faster

Badoo Jul 30, 2020

Using Gradle Composite Builds as a BuildSrc Replacement

Snapchat Jul 27, 2020

Shipping Two Apps In One Android

LinkedIn Jun 26, 2020

Faster testing on Android with Mobile Test Orchestrator

Spotify May 1, 2020

How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI

Flutter Blog Mar 23, 2020

Embedding Flutter Applications in Websites Using DartPad

Pinterest Mar 15, 2020

How a One-line Change Decreased Our Build Times by 99%

Gojek Mar 15, 2020

Reducing Our Build Time by 50%

Swift.org Blog Feb 27, 2020

Argument Parser Library for Swift

React Native Blog Nov 18, 2019

React Native Doctor Diagnostic Tool

Dropbox Oct 30, 2019

Modernizing Our Android Build System Part I: The Planning

Dropbox Oct 30, 2019

Modernizing Our Android Build System Part II: The Execution

SoundCloud Aug 30, 2019

Gradle Remote Build Cache Optimization

LINE May 14, 2019

iOS Code Signing Best Practices

Callstack Apr 12, 2019

Bob: A React Native Library Builder Tool

Uber Apr 2, 2019

Measuring Kotlin Build Performance

Badoo Dec 12, 2018

Bundling C Library in Swift Framework

Bumble Dec 12, 2018

Bundling C Library in Swift Framework

Skyscanner Nov 20, 2018

Hate to Wait: How Skyscanner Used Module Caching to Cut App Build Speed in Half

Freeletics Jul 4, 2018

Android App Bundle: Distribution and Size Optimization

Freeletics May 22, 2018

Reducing APK Size: A Journey to Smaller Android Apps

Strava Apr 30, 2018

Android Guild Week at Strava

Groupon Jan 30, 2018

Developing Android Studio Plugins With Gradle

Airbnb Jul 1, 2017

Building Mixed Language iOS Projects with Buck

Airbnb Jun 15, 2017

Unlocking Test Performance: Migrating from Mocha to Jest

Zalando Apr 12, 2017

Improving Swift Compilation Times from 12 to 2 Minutes

Bumble Feb 23, 2017

Code Signing and Distributing Swift Applications

Airbnb May 11, 2016

Android: An Exercise in "Ship It"

LinkedIn Apr 7, 2016

3x3: iOS Build Speed and Stability

React Native Blog Mar 24, 2016

Introducing Hot Reloading

Callstack Jan 11, 2016

A Cure for Relative Requires in React Native

Kotlin Blog Aug 5, 2015

Gradle Daemon Support for Faster Build Compilation

SoundCloud Mar 8, 2014

CocoaPods Sponsorship and iOS Dependency Management

Spotify Nov 4, 2013

Shaving off 50% Waiting Time from the iOS Edit-Build-Test Cycle

Kotlin Blog Oct 7, 2013

How To Configure Kotlin In Your Project