#mobile-app-development

Pooja Sharma 12 Feb 2024 6 min read

In today’s competitive world of Mobile app development, it’s essential to create apps that are not only feature-rich but also lightweight. Studies show that for every 6MB increase in the app size, there’s a decrease in install conversion rate by 1%. Therefore, with the increasing demand for faster downloads and better user experiences, app size has become crucial to increase…

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Tracy Stampfli 20 Sept 2022 9 min read

You grinded LeetCode, nailed the interview process, and got an internship at an amazing company. Congrats! But now it’s week three of your internship, you have no idea how anything works, and you’ve written one line of code in the past two days. How do you ask for help? Whom do you ask for help?…

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Tracy Stampfli 28 Mar 2022 11 min read

In the first post about the Duplo initiative, we discussed the reasons for launching a project to revamp Slack’s mobile codebases, and what we accomplished in Duplo’s initial Stabilization phase. This post will explore modularization, and then there will be a third post to describe how we modernized our codebase and the overall results of…

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Nathan Petryk 1 Nov 2017 5 min read

In my last post — Minimally Invasive API Versioning — I talked about how the Mobile API team at RetailMeNot handles versioning our Clojure APIs using a macro called versioned . This macro alone worked great for over a year, but we needed more. In this post I will cover how we evolved it to help ease our feature rollout…

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Nathan Petryk 18 Oct 2017 6 min read

One of the challenges in developing an API for mobile apps is that there is not both a pleasant and reliable way of forcing them to upgrade. This means that in some cases your API needs to support apps that are several years old. The mobile API for RetailMeNot is no exception. This post walks through one of the ways…

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Engineering Yammer 12 Dec 2016 8 min read

Since the introduction of Xcode 8 in late September, Swift 3 has become the default version to develop iOS and Mac OS apps. As an iOS shop, we had to consider a migration project to port our codebase from 2.3 to 3 while maintaining a good relationship with the Objective C part of the project. To Migrate or Not To…

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