Mobile

Optimizing Testing For Server Driven Mobile Development at Strava

The Prologue

Hi there 👋I’m Xin Yi, a junior at UC Berkeley studying computer science. The first time I heard about Strava was through my dad, who had become a dedicated user since the day he…

An Exploration into the Inspiration of Memes

Landing an internship is tough. I sometimes look back at last year when I was…

Building Activity Tagging With an Iterative Approach

The beginnings of activity tagging

Apple Dev Guild Week

Swift Adoption

The team of developers that works on our iPhone and Apple Watch app spends the majority of its time working on feature development during the year. However, for a week in April the Apple Dev Guild had the opportunity to focus on platform…

Android Guild Week: Modularizing our App

The Android team at Strava tries to maintain a healthy level of refactoring in conjunction with feature development throughout the year. However, earlier this month, all Android engineers had the opportunity to focus solely on platform health for an entire…

Strava Mobile App Version Numbers

Strava mobile app users may have noticed that earlier this year Strava’s mobile app versions started increasing rapidly. It went from 5.14.0 on March 6th to 6.0.0 on March 20th, then 7.0.0, and then a major version for each public release after that. Each version number…

Managing Internal iOS Dependencies with Private CocoaPods

Cadence, Choo Choo!!

Over the last four years the mobile team at Strava has shipped more than fifty releases across Android and iOS. Our release cycle has varied from over three months for huge monolithic features to less than a week for hotfixes of issues discovered shortly after releasing. Historically app…

Improving Auto-Pause for Everyone

Every time an athlete uploads an activity to Strava, the server analyzes the activity and calculates…