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Emerge's Bits & Bytes: March 2025

What we're building

πŸ’€ Reaper Insights - Unused Types by Version

If there's code in your app that hasn't been used in the previous 10 versions, then it's probably safe to delete. That's exactly what our newest Reaper feature shows you. We've added a new insight feature in Reaper to compare older versions of your app against each other to let you know how long code has been unused.

Screenshot of Reaper version comparison feature
🌐 Emerge Web Tracker

Web tracker uses our Snapshots infra to screenshot web pages (mobile or desktop version) and monitor UI changes over time. This allows you to keep track of your own web pages (or maybe even your competitor's).

Screenshot of Emerge Web Tracker interface
πŸ€– Gradle Plugin v4.3.1

We released Emerge Gradle Plugin 4.3.1 with some small build performance improvements, disabling of third party preview snapshots as well as the ability to set the comparison precision using the new @EmergeSnapshotConfig annotation.

πŸ“Έ Snapshot UI Updates

We've updated the UI for ignoring specific snapshot diffs to provide more control over what you want to see. There's now a checkbox option to "show ignored snapshots last" so they don't disrupt your workflow, and ignored snapshots are collapsed by default.

Screenshot of new Snapshot UI with ignore options

What we're writing

πŸ”₯ How the Tinder iOS App reduced the size of our localizations by 95% using Emerge

Tinder's iOS team reduced their localization file size by 95% using Emerge's SmallStrings to identify and remove unused strings from their app.

What we're reading

App find of the month

T-Life

This month, we analyzed how the T-Mobile T-Life iOS app grew 10x in size since the beginning of last year. Check out the full thread on Twitter or Thread Reader to find out more πŸ‘€

Screenshot of T-Life app size analysis

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