Blog posts tagged 'Android'
Managing resources for large-scale testing
With a single API, engineers at Facebook can interact with thousands of mobile devices, browsers, and emulators in our data centers to test new code before it ships. Read more...
Open-sourcing Litho, a declarative UI framework for Android
Litho lays out components ahead of time in a background thread, and renders incrementally to deliver best-in-class performance. Read more...
Register now for F8 2017!
Apply now for a spot at Facebook's annual developer conference. Read more...
Building Zero protocol for fast, secure mobile connections
The protocol introduces several changes that help make mobile connections more efficient and secure. Read more...
Facebook Open Source 2016 year in review
Over the past few years, Facebook's Open Source program has grown into one of the largest and most active portfolios in the industry. Read more...
Made in NY: The engineering behind social recommendations
The product incorporates machine learning and client-side caching to identify relevant posts and dynamically update attachments as new recommendations are added. Read more...
Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine
The open-source layout engine allows product engineers to build layouts quickly for multiple platforms. Read more...
Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clients
The open source library is able to export and play back high-quality, lightweight animations, such as the ones seen in Facebook Reactions. Read more...
Delivering real-time AI in the palm of your hand
Caffe2go is a new deep learning platform that can — for the first time — capture, analyze, and process pixels in real time, directly on a mobile device. Read more...
Components for Android: A declarative framework for efficient UIs
Components for Android delivers smooth scroll performance on feeds with complex content and virtually infinite variations. Read more...
Android accessibility debugging with Stetho
The open source debugging tool now includes an Accessibility Properties section that improves app compatibility with focus navigation. Read more...
The mobile device lab at the Prineville data center
The custom-built rack lets engineers run tests on thousands of phones to understand the performance implications of a code change. Read more...
Memory optimization for feeds on Android
Creating an optimized data structure led to a reduction in allocations and an overall improvement in memory efficiency. Read more...
React Native: A year in review
After just one year in the open source community, React Native has changed the way developers build on every major platform. Read more...
Dive into React Native performance
We implemented several performance optimizations over the past year to make React Native app startup twice as fast. Read more...
How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network
FB Lite is the fastest-growing version of Facebook, 100 million users in under nine months. Read more...
F8 registration is now open!
Save the date: F8 will be April 12 and 13 in San Francisco. Read more...
Favorite hacks of 2015
The passion people have for ideas generated at hackathons results in everything from new products to open source tools. Read more...
Making React Native apps accessible
With the React Native Accessibility API, you can make sure the great experiences you are creating will be usable by people with disabilities and other users of assistive technology. Read more...
Performance instrumentation for Android apps
Bytecode rewriting has allowed us to scale up our performance instrumentation, providing unique insights into the execution at runtime. Read more...
Optimizing Android bytecode with ReDex
The Facebook Mobile Performance Team optimized Java bytecode for Android through a project called Redex. Read more...
Improving Facebook's performance on Android with FlatBuffers
In last six months, we have transitioned most of Facebook on Android to use FlatBuffers as the storage format. Read more...
Under the hood: Building Moments
We set out to make it easy for you to get the photos you didn't take. Our objective throughout the development process was to create something that empowers people to more easily give photos to friends and get their photos back. Read more...
F8: Big technology bets and open source announcements
The second day of F8 — Facebook's annual developer conference — was dedicated to the future of communications technology. Read more...
Introducing Fresco: A new image library for Android
Today we're open-sourcing a library we're calling Fresco — it manages images and the memory they use. Read more...
Classes: Performance and network segmentation on Android
Today we're happy to open-source Year Class and Connection Class, which help developers smartly segment based on device and network performance in real time. Read more...
Shimmer for Android
Shimmer is an easy way to add a shimmering effect to any view in your app — it's useful as an unobtrusive loading indicator. Read more...
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