Emerge's Bits & Bytes: February 2025
What we're building
📰 Hacker News is available on the App Store!Hacker News for iOS is officially available in the App Store! It's still a work in progress, but try it out for yourself and let us know what you think.

Our compile unit attribution API now supports app clips.
🤖 Gradle plugin improvementsWe've made multiple improvements to the Android Gradle plugin to reduce conflicts + you can now get it sooner than ever with up to commit -SNAPSHOT releases.
What we're writing
🧑💻 Introducing the Emerge CLIAn introduction to the Emerge CLI, a command-line tool that helps mobile developers analyze and optimize their app's size, performance, and build processes.
🤖 Integrating Emerge Android Snapshots with GitHub ActionsA step-by-step guide on using Emerge Android Snapshots with GitHub Actions to automate UI change detection in Android apps.
🍎 Integrating Emerge iOS Snapshots with GitHub ActionsA step-by-step guide on using Emerge iOS Snapshots with GitHub Actions to automate UI change detection in iOS apps.
🥗 Putting Your iOS App on a Diet: Optimizing Download SizeCheck out our newest case study with Lightricks/FaceTune with strategies to reduce an iOS app's download size, covering techniques like stripping symbols, optimizing assets, and leveraging bitcode.
What we're reading
- Debugging An Undebuggable App
- Code injection on macOS
- How Apple's Close-Source Approach Is Losing Out to AI App Builders
- The Tragedy of Build Classpath
App find of the month
Binance iOSYou know we love to analyze bloated banking apps 🫶 This month, we were tagged on Threads to break down the 700 MB Binance app. Check out the full thread on Twitter or Thread Reader to see what we found 👀

Hope everyone enjoyed these Bits and Bytes ❤️