The size of an app has wide-reaching consequences on user experience.
At first glance, you might consider slower install times, more install failures, and a higher uninstall rate. But it doesn’t stop there. Unnecessary code leads to rising compile times. Large binaries increase how much work the runtime does to lookup…
The most intriguing feature from WWDC21 was buried deep in the Xcode 13 release notes:
All programs and
dylibsbuilt with a deployment target of macOS 12 or iOS 15 or later now use the chained fixups format. …
The app launch experience is the first impression you make on a user. Every millisecond they wait for your app to start is valuable time they could spend elsewhere. If your app has high engagement and is used multiple times a day then users have to wait for launch over…
Many mobile developers can attest to the problems of app size increase.
Sometimes it’s a quick feature release with an uncompressed image that adds 5%. Sometimes it’s a slow, steady increase of 0.5% each week.
I worked on these issues as a software engineer at Airbnb for 4.5 years, and…
By Noah Martin & Hugo Ahlberg
Since iOS 7, Dynamic Type has allowed users to choose a prefered font size for their phone. At Airbnb, we try to build an app that our entire community can use — since Dynamic Type is a critical accessibility feature, we knew supporting it…
