Emerge's Bits & Bytes: August 2024

This month’s edition marks one whole year of Bits & Bytes! We hope you’ve enjoyed reading it as much as we’ve enjoyed writing it. Let’s run through some of our favorite highlights and memorable moments from the past year 🥹

Bits & Bytes Highlights ✨

• September 2023: Snapshots came out of beta & we became the first company outside of Apple to symbolicate SwiftUI
• December 2023: Highlighting our end-of-year accomplishments + some of our Open Source projects
• April 2024: We released ReaperAI! We've expanded our beta to more teams, sign up here if you're interested!
• May 2024: Emerge's Open-Source & Indie plans were released

What we're building

We're very excited to release network monitoring to our Performance Analysis product, which will give users visibility into your app's network behavior.

This feature captures and displays all network activity during your test runs, making comparing network behavior between builds easier. You can now quickly identify all network requests made in a specific perf test and quickly analyze changes in network requests across builds. Network monitoring is currently an Android-only feature and opt-in feature. Get in touch with us if you're interested in using it!

By popular demand, you can now create multiple configurations for our weekly digests. This means you can create one digest for your Android team and another for your iOS. Or you could make a digest for every app you ship. You can do anything 🤠👍

Last month, we introduced our new module and dependency attribution feature for Android. This month, we’ve updated the UI to show attribution details in our X-ray and Breakdown pages.

Module & dependency attribution available in hover tip

We introduced several improvements to Snapshots, such as pre-flight checks on Android, improved error-state UI, and a new UI to show the status of Snapshot shards.

What we're writing

How much of a dead app is dead code? Check out our deep dive into Apollo to find out 🤓

What we're reading

• Android jetpack navigation
• Apple Intelligence Foundation language models
• Top 5 iOS mobile accessibility issues

App find of the month

This month, the people wanted toothbrushes, so we gave them toothbrushes 🪥 Check out the difference in the Oral-B and Colgate toothbrush apps and why they’re so big on Twitter or Unroll

This thread was also featured on the front page of Hacker News, and speaking of HN, we have some fun news to share soon...👀

Hope everyone enjoyed these Bits and Bytes ❤️