Tag archive: Mobile

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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...
Infrastructure
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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...
Developer ExperienceDeveloper ToolsMobile
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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...
Developer ToolsMobilePlatformProduct
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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…
MobileMy Beat
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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.
MobileMy Beat
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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...
DataMobileOpen Source
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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....
Developer ToolsMobileOpen Source
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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...
Developer ToolsMobileMy BeatOpen SourcePeople
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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,...
Developer ToolsMobileOpen Source
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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...
Mobile
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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...
MobileMy BeatPeople
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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...
InfrastructureMobile