
…to a much more usable Instagram for Android, which people have been enjoying for the past 6 months. Simplicity is a core principle for our engineering and product teams, and we’ll continue to push hard on efforts like these to make the Instagram experience as fast and beautiful as possible for all of our users.
…tack, manages its own image cache — a lot of duplicated work with the rest of the app. To fix this, we converted News to be a native view. This gave us enough control to be able to delay loading News until after main feed is loaded, and …
…ew, and after profiling we were surprised to find that it was creating a lot of threads on startup, stealing time from the main processor. We realized that we had no control over how the webview manages important system resources. It spi…