How Airbnb Uses Swift

Airbnb built a system that combines GraphQL infrastructure, product context, and LLMs to automatically generate and maintain realistic, type-safe mock data using a custom @generateMock directive.

The article chronicles Helena Zarazua's transition from an arts-focused background to becoming a full-time iOS developer at Airbnb through their Connect engineering apprenticeship program.

The article discusses Airbnb's adoption of SwiftUI in their iOS app, detailing the motivations behind the transition from their custom framework Epoxy to SwiftUI.

The article discusses how Airbnb revamped its continuous integration (CI) system for iOS development by leveraging AWS, Packer, and Terraform.

This article discusses how the iOS team at Airbnb has enhanced developer productivity within a large-scale application by addressing challenges associated with a growing codebase.

This article explores Airbnb's server-driven UI system, known as the Ghost Platform, which enables faster feature deployment across web, iOS, and Android platforms.

The article discusses Airbnb's peer-to-peer learning program, 'Code Like a Mobile Engineer,' aimed at enhancing the mobile engineering skills of team members.

The article introduces Epoxy, a new library developed by Airbnb for declaratively building iOS applications.

The article discusses Airbnb's decision to rewrite the popular open-source library Lottie from Objective-C to Swift, reflecting on the challenges and benefits of this transition.

Airbnb has open-sourced its Swift Style Guide, reflecting four years of experience using Swift.

The article discusses Airbnb's experience in integrating Buck for building mixed-language iOS projects, specifically those using Swift and Objective-C.

The article discusses Airbnb's migration from Swift 2 to Swift 3, detailing the challenges faced and the strategies employed to ensure a smooth transition without halting development.