Mobile Vitals

Callstack released a CLI tool that lets AI agents test mobile apps. Before this, agents could write code but couldn't actually interact with the app. Read more: Agent Device: AI-Native Mobile Automation for iOS and Android mobile-vitals.com/article/22… #Android #AI

Matthew McCullough from Android says Google is changing how people use apps. Instead of opening apps to complete tasks, users will ask AI to do it for them. Read more: The Intelligent OS: Making AI agents more helpful for Android apps mobile-vitals.com/article/23… #Android #AI

Abdelrahman Khalil shipped a production app that pointed to staging servers. It was a painful mistake. The experience pushed him to learn Flutter Flavors inside and out, and now he's sharing how to keep it from happening to you. Read more: The Mistake That Taught Me to Use Flutter Flavors mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #Flutter #Android

Antoine van der Lee breaks down Swift 6.4's concurrency updates so you don't have to parse through Evolution proposals yourself. These changes solve real problems developers face when adopting async/await. Read more: Swift 6.4: What's New in Concurrency mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #iOS #Threading

Antoine van der Lee looks at a small change in Swift 6.4 that cuts down on boilerplate code. If you've written initializers just to keep private properties hidden, this is worth reading. Read more: Memberwise Initializer in Swift explained with Code Examples mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #iOS #Architecture

Grab's iOS team dropped Fastlane and wrote custom bash scripts instead. They built a Slackbot called Iris (Siri backwards) to run their entire build pipeline. Sometimes the simpler approach just works better. Read more: Deep Dive into iOS Automation at Grab - Continuous Delivery mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #iOS #CICD

Archana Indran's team at Salesforce built AI from years of mobile debugging work that investigates build failures the way a senior engineer would. Eight people now support over 60 repositories and spend less time fighting fires. Read more: How AI Learned to Investigate Mobile Build Failures Like an Experienced Support Engineer mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #iOS #Android

Craig Labenz from Google's Flutter team built an AI coffee bar that made 3,000 custom lattes at a conference. He used GenUI to let Gemini create different interfaces for each drink order in real time. Read more: How we built a Flutter-powered AI coffee shop mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #Flutter #AI

Wealthfront's Android team sped up their CI build times by changing how Gradle allocates resources on AWS EC2 instances. Adding more workers didn't actually make builds faster. Read more: Tuning Android build nodes for maximum throughput mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #Android #BuildTime

Kush Agrawal from Duolingo recently shared that they generated 85,000 lines of iOS test code with almost no manual work. Software development's bottleneck has shifted. Writing code isn't the problem anymore. Verifying that it works is. Read more: How We Automated iOS Unit Test Generation with AI mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #iOS #AI

Amorn Apichattanakul from KBTG uses Google Antigravity to write Flutter tests automatically while developers aren't working. The agent finds gaps in test coverage, writes the tests, fixes failures, and opens pull requests before the morning standup. Read more: Antigravity on the Night Shift: Automating Mobile Integration Tests and Auto-Fixing PRs mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #Flutter #Testing

Emma Twersky from Google's Flutter team released their 2026 roadmap. The focus has shifted beyond UI work. Flutter is moving toward AI-generated interfaces and using Dart across the full stack. Read more: Flutter & Dart's 2026 Roadmap mobile-vitals.com/article/23… #Flutter #Architecture

Nazar Sydiaha from Callstack shows how to handle one of React Native's toughest problems: running multiple apps with shared packages without everything falling apart. His monorepo guide can help your team skip weeks of dependency issues. Read more: A Practical Guide to React Native Monorepo With Yarn Workspaces mobile-vitals.com/article/22… #ReactNative #Modularization

SBI has 80 million users on Flutter. Nubank has 100 million. BMW runs it in 47 countries. Here's the full list. Read more: The Biggest Flutter Apps in Production (2026) mobile-vitals.com/article/23… #Flutter #Architecture

Taha Selim Aksakal from Teknasyon Engineering found a memory leak that quietly pushed RAM usage from 160MB to critical levels over 12 hours with no traffic hitting the system. Two popular libraries were interacting in an unexpected way, and that's what caused it. Read more: Silent Killer in Production: Memory Leak Diagnosis and Solution Journey mobile-vitals.com/article/23… #Android #MemoryLeaks

Antoine van der Lee reverse-engineered Apple's official SwiftUI Agent Skill from Xcode 27 and found something odd: it's built for speed, but it skips over a lot of what developers actually do with SwiftUI every day. Read more: SwiftUI Best Practices, straight from Apple's Xcode 27 Agent Skill mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #iOS #SwiftUI

Łukasz Kosmaty at Expo released a compiler plugin that reduces Android app startup time by 30%. Developers don't need to change any code to use it. Read more: How a Kotlin compiler plugin cut Android time to first render by 30% mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #Android #AppStartup

Costa Fotiadis from Just Eat Takeaway ran Google's Remote Compose through real production tests, and it worked well. Could this alpha library finally replace WebViews for server-driven UI? Read more: Remote Compose looks promising mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #Android #RemoteCompose

Joel Besada from Shopify explains how they built a confetti animation in React Native that runs at 60 FPS without freezing the JavaScript thread. The approach uses declarative animations that run directly on the native UI thread. Read more: Building Arrive's Confetti in React Native with Reanimated mobile-vitals.com/article/27… #ReactNative #Android

Callstack released a new profiler for React Native teams working with AI SDKs. If your on-device LLM integration runs slowly, this tool can help you figure out why. Read more: Introducing AI SDK Profiler for React Native Performance Analysis mobile-vitals.com/article/16… #ReactNative #PerformanceProfiling