Emerge's Bits & Bytes: July 2024

We're excited to welcome the newest member of the Emerge Team, Sarah! In addition to working on growth at Emerge, Sarah is one of the founders of the Green Tile Social Club, a mahjong club in NYC. Speaking of Mahjong, Emerge just hosted Mahjong for Mobile devs with the help of GTSC 🀄️.

Thanks to everyone who came out to this awesome event! S/o Snowcubes (created by iOS dev Leo Kwan) for sponsoring sweet treats!

What we're building

Our Android Reaper beta is now open! Previously iOS-only, Reaper finds unused code based on production runtime analysis. Sign up for the beta + check out our docs to see how easy integrating is.

One of the biggest sources of bloat for apps is unoptimized images. Emerge has always been able to identify these images and let you download an optimized version. With this new feature, Emerge can automatically open pull requests to optimize the images for you 🙂

How much space is a third-party library taking up in your Android app? Our new Module Attribution feature breaks down each module's total size impact.

Largest modules, sorted by size

What we're writing

Read about techniques in Swift concurrency and when they are appropriate to use

What we're reading

• We need visual programming. No, not like that.
• Compose Guard: Detecting Regressions In Jetpack Compose
• Chris Lattner Interview (video)

App find of the month

Another month, another person asking why is a an app so big. This time, we explore why Gmail is over half a GB - you can read it on Twitter or Thread Reader.

btw, this was our best performing tweet ever and the first time we had more than 1M organic views 🤗

Hope everyone enjoyed these Bits and Bytes ❤️