Tag archive: Mobile
May 9, 2025
Incident Report: Spotify Outage on April 16, 2025
On April 16, Spotify experienced an outage that affected users worldwide. Here is what happened and what we...
Apr 17, 2025
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Release the Spotify App (Part 1)
Developing and releasing mobile apps at scale is a big challenge. With each weekly release of our mobile app...
Nov 14, 2023
The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
Our daily tasks as engineers often involve implementing new functionalities. Existing users get to enjoy the...
Mar 18, 2022
Zela Taino: iOS Engineer
Zela has worked on Spotify Wrapped for the past two years – most recently, taking on the role of Tech Lead…
Feb 22, 2022
Mesfin Mekonnen: Senior Engineer
Mesfin is part of our Spotify New York team and jumped at the chance to work as an embed on 2021 Wrapped.
Feb 14, 2022
Introducing Ruler: Our Tool for Measuring Android App Size
At Spotify, we strive to make our apps available to as many people as possible. As mobile developers, that...
Nov 16, 2021
Introducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%
At Spotify, we constantly work on creating the best developer experience possible for our iOS engineers....
Jun 4, 2021
Patrick Balestra: Senior Engineer
Originally from Switzerland, Patrick has lived in Sweden for almost three years now and works as a Senior iOS...
Jan 20, 2021
Introducing XCMetrics: Our All-in-One Tool for Tracking Xcode Build Metrics
TL;DR We just open sourced — a tool for Apple’s developer software, Xcode, that lets you collect, display,...
Dec 3, 2020
How We Built It: Spotify Lite, One Year Later
What if, for some users, the very best Spotify is a little less Spotify? Spotify Lite started as an...
Jul 24, 2020
Erick Camacho: iOS Engineer
Erick joined our Stockholm office as an iOS Engineer more than 18 months ago. But right now, he’s working...
May 1, 2020
How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up...