In Part 1, we discussed about the importance of continuous monitoring of APK size and started implementation of Github Action workflow where the first job was Generate builds for both base and merge branches. In this post we’re going to implement the second job i.e. …

App size is one of the very important metric which impacts the conversion rate. The larger the app size the lower the conversion rate. In fact, Google has found a strong correlation between APK size and install conversion rates, claiming that install conversion rates drop 1% for every 6MB added…

In this post we’ll look at the methodology which we can use to categorize and tackle ANRs, as well as how it helped us reduce our User-perceived ANR rate by more than 60% 🤯 by an accident 😅. …

This is a post about how a false positive performance issue (i.e. Main thread sleeping for ~1 second during App launch) made me waste many days in debugging and identifying the root cause. …

For last few weeks I’ve been working for a client and one of the major issue that we were facing was the Slow Cold Start or Slow TTID (Time to initial Display). You can see the Slow Cold Start Metric for your app in Play Console’s Android Vitals section. Definition…

NOTE: While not being an actual continuation of my previous medium post, it’ll be great if you read that as well to get an info on other issues that you might face while measuring the impact of Baseline Profiles on OPPO, OnePlus or Xiaomi devices. …

How many times you’ve faced this issue where you wanted to verify some Java/Kotlin code in your Android app and you ended up putting that code on launch activity to verify that it works properly and spent minutes waiting for code to get deployed on the device/emulator? 🙈 Why people do it? Not sure…

This year’s Android Dev Summit (ADS) got kicked off on October 24 with keynote and Modern Android Development track. They covered a lot of topics ranging from Jetpack Compose, App Architecture, App Performance, Android Studio Tooling support (for both Jetpack Compose & Crashlytics), Relay — a tool for Design handoff…

I’ve been reading and learning about Jetpack Compose since June 2021 but because of my work on KMM side of things, I wasn’t able to spend time or write Jetpack Compose code actively. But things have changed since last month and now I’m focusing a lot more on Jetpack Compose. …