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Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer<\/i><\/div>\n
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\n Monzo is a UK digital bank with 15 million customers and growing. As the app scaled, the engineering team identified app startup time as a critical area for improvement but worried it would require significant changes to their codebase.\n <\/p>\n

\n By fully enabling R8 optimizations, Monzo achieved a massive 35% reduction in their Application Not Responding (ANR) rate. This simple change proved that impactful optimizations don’t always require complex engineering efforts.\n <\/p>\n

Unlocking broad performance wins with R8 full mode<\/h2>\n

\n Monzo identified R8 full mode as an easy fix worth trying; and it worked, improving performance across the board:\n <\/p>\n