Kudos on Grab for their hard work.
Grab shrank its superapp by a quarter in order to survive
In 2019, Southeast Asian superapp developer Grab spotted a problem: its app was growing in size by one percent per month, making it less suited to the modest smartphones found across the region in which it operates, degrading user experience and ultimately threatening its prospects for attracting more users. "As the app …
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Tuesday 5th March 2024 06:55 GMT ldo
R Classes Contain Resource IDs
I thought that integer constants would have their values directly substituted into the code where they are referenced. Given that
R.java
files contain nothing but integer constant definitions, why should the presence of unneeded (and therefore unreferenced) definitions contribute anything to compiled code size at all? -
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Tuesday 5th March 2024 09:32 GMT Pascal Monett
"Grab is now working to adopt a single font"
Kudos to Grab for a momentous job, and special points if they do open-source their app sizer. I'm sure many other developers will find that extremely useful.
But there is one thing I don't understand : the multiple font issue. Why does it even exist ? Why didn't Grab specify the working font at the beginning of its project, and stick to it ?
I would have thought brand identity would be a consideration, but apparently Grab has multiple teams and each team made its own UI decisions.
That doesn't strike me as a good idea.