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10 minutes build time for the Spotify app - I don't do mobile development - is that a long time? I've only briefly touched a point of sale iOS app and compiling

10 minutes build time for the Spotify app - I don't do mobile development - is that a long time? I've only briefly touched a point of sale iOS app and compiling took maybe 30 seconds.

teakettle42 5y ago
That’s an unfathomably long time for an application of the complexity of Spotify.
- piva00 5y ago
  What do you know about the complexity of the Spotify app?
  - tsss 5y ago
    It's a music player and not even a good one.
    - styren 5y ago
      What you're saying has nothing to do with the complexity of their app.
    - piva00 5y ago
      Is it really just a music player? All it does is fetch some binary blob in some audio format and play it? I feel this is another Dropbox moment [1] on Hacker News where the hyper-smart ones here dismiss a whole technology/company on their most simplistic assumptions about what the product actually is doing. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
    - dbbk 5y ago
      There are hundreds of screens in the Spotify app
- marcellus23 5y ago
  No it’s not, and the Spotify app is clearly fairly complex.
dado3212 5y ago
Nah it’s not. Most big tech companies optimize for having multiple devs be able to work simultaneously on different projects, which usually is orthogonal to build time (lots of potentially redundant code, lots of libraries that are split up). Is it slow for a single dev project? 100%, but it’s pretty reasonable for a larger company. Last I heard FB’s app took like 30+ minutes to cold start build.
edvardwendelin 5y ago
Disclosure: Work on mobile infrastructure at Spotify. A lot of the Spotify app isn't perhaps visible at a first glance. Besides the key features I'm sure you're already familiar with, there is also an extensive number of 3rd party integrations (cars, wearables, voice, social sharing etc). The app as a whole is 1-2M LOC Objective-C & Swift.

10 minutes build time for the Spotify app - I don't do mobile development - is that a long time? I've only briefly touched a point of sale iOS app and compiling took maybe 30 seconds.

teakettle42 5y ago

That’s an unfathomably long time for an application of the complexity of Spotify.

piva00 5y ago
What do you know about the complexity of the Spotify app?
- tsss 5y ago
  It's a music player and not even a good one.
  - styren 5y ago
    What you're saying has nothing to do with the complexity of their app.
  - piva00 5y ago
    Is it really just a music player? All it does is fetch some binary blob in some audio format and play it? I feel this is another Dropbox moment [1] on Hacker News where the hyper-smart ones here dismiss a whole technology/company on their most simplistic assumptions about what the product actually is doing. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
  - dbbk 5y ago
    There are hundreds of screens in the Spotify app
marcellus23 5y ago
No it’s not, and the Spotify app is clearly fairly complex.

dado3212 5y ago

Nah it’s not. Most big tech companies optimize for having multiple devs be able to work simultaneously on different projects, which usually is orthogonal to build time (lots of potentially redundant code, lots of libraries that are split up). Is it slow for a single dev project? 100%, but it’s pretty reasonable for a larger company. Last I heard FB’s app took like 30+ minutes to cold start build.

edvardwendelin 5y ago

Disclosure: Work on mobile infrastructure at Spotify. A lot of the Spotify app isn't perhaps visible at a first glance. Besides the key features I'm sure you're already familiar with, there is also an extensive number of 3rd party integrations (cars, wearables, voice, social sharing etc). The app as a whole is 1-2M LOC Objective-C & Swift.