Emerge's Bits & Bytes: February 2025
What we're building
π° 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.
π€ 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
π§βπ» 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.
π€ 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.
π 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.
π₯ 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 π«Ά 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 π

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