Building Mobile Apps at Scale
The missing guide for building large apps
Building Mobile Apps at Scale launched on April 19, 2021 with 187 votes, #150 of 3,754 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
What it does
This book collects challenges engineers face when building iOS and Android apps at scale, and common ways to tackle these. By scale, we mean having numbers of users in the millions and being built by large engineering teams.
The guide for building large, iOS, and Android native apps - with the challenges and common solutions across the industry.
The missing guide for building large, iOS, and Android native apps -with the challenges and common solutions across the industry. 30 pieces of advice for mobile engineers and engineering managers. Writing of the book has been supported by the following world-class vendors. Please give their offerings a spin. CI/CD built for mobile - by mobile engineers . From pull request, to app store submission and beyond, Bitrise automates, monitors and improves your app development workflows. Teams who use Bitrise build better quality apps, deliver them faster, with developers who are happy. Bitrise supports native Android, iOS , React Native, Flutter and other mobile builds. More than 100.000…from mobileatscale.com
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