Media

22 articles

We track 22 Media articles from 14 engineering teams. Callstack, Meta and Netflix write about it most. Most posts cover Android (19), iOS (9) and React Native (3). The newest one is from January 2026.

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Recent Media reads from the teams that cover it most.

Callstack · Oct 14, 2025

Building Real-Time Audio Pipelines in React Native

Real-time audio in React Native isn't just about playing files anymore.
Google · Aug 11, 2025

Media3 1.8.0 Release: New Features and Improvements

Toni Heidenreich from Google just dropped Media3 1.8.0, and the scrubbing mode alone will change how your users interact with video…
Meta · Mar 26, 2024

Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads

Meta serves trillions of image downloads daily.

All Media articles 1–22 of 22

PickMe Jan 5, 2026

From PNGs to GIFs: Mastering Animated Images in Android with Coil

Instagram Nov 17, 2025

Enhancing HDR on Instagram for iOS With Dolby Vision

Reddit Nov 9, 2025

Reddit: Making Android Videos Super Fast

Callstack Oct 14, 2025

Building Real-Time Audio Pipelines in React Native

Callstack Oct 3, 2025

Cross-Platform TV Apps with React Native for tvOS, Android TV, and Tizen

Google Aug 11, 2025

Media3 1.8.0 Release: New Features and Improvements

Meta Mar 26, 2024

Bringing HDR photo support to Instagram and Threads

Swiggy Oct 17, 2023

Media on Swiggy's Mobile Apps

Meta Jul 17, 2023

Bringing HDR video to Reels

Meta Apr 11, 2023

Why xHE-AAC is being embraced at Meta

Swiggy Jan 17, 2023

Video Stories and Caching Mechanism (iOS)

Callstack Jan 11, 2023

Lottie vs Rive: Optimizing Mobile App Animation

Pinterest Nov 15, 2022

Improving the Player on Android

SoundCloud Oct 13, 2022

Image Loading and Optimization on Android

Netflix Jan 21, 2021

Optimizing the Aural Experience on Android Devices with xHE-AAC

Badoo Jun 16, 2020

WebRTC on Android: Enabling Hardware Encoding Across Devices

Flipkart Apr 1, 2020

Madman: An Open-Source Ads Framework for Android

Netflix Feb 5, 2020

Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs | by Netflix Technology Blog | Netflix TechBlog

Rakuten Viki May 28, 2019

Best Practices for Video Playback in Android

Netflix Dec 13, 2018

Performance comparison of video coding standards: an adaptive streaming perspective

Badoo Jun 8, 2017

Reactive Camera Implementation with Camera2 API on Android - Part 1

Freeletics Feb 7, 2017

Motion Recognition for Fitness on Android Wear

Teams that write about Media

Platforms

Android (19 on Media) iOS (9 on Media) React Native (3 on Media)