Your app can work perfectly—and still feel slow. One thing I’ve learned from building mobile apps...Your app can work perfectly—and still feel slow. One thing I’ve learned from building mobile apps...
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Farid Hasyim
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• Sep 5
Your app can work perfectly—and still feel slow.
One thing I’ve learned from building mobile apps is that performance isn’t just about avoiding crashes.
It’s about how the app feels.
A few things I always look at when optimizing a mobile application:
→ Slow API responses and unnecessary network calls → Excessive recomposition / UI rendering → Heavy work running on the main thread → Inefficient state management → Memory usage and image loading → Unnecessary database operations → Poor handling of loading, error, and empty states
For Android, I often dig into these areas using Kotlin, Coroutines, Jetpack components, and proper architecture.
For Flutter, the same principle applies: keep the UI responsive, minimize unnecessary rebuilds, and make async operations predictable.
The goal isn't to make the code “faster” just for the sake of it.
The goal is simple:
Make the app feel fast, reliable, and predictable—even when real users are on slow networks and older devices.
That’s where good mobile engineering makes a difference.
#MobileDevelopment #Android #Kotlin #Flutter #AppPerformance #SoftwareEngineering #MVP
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