We Fix the Parts Nobody Sees
Back in early 2024, I was debugging a client's app that kept crashing on older Android devices. The UI looked perfect. Features worked fine on our test phones. But for thousands of their users? Nothing but frustration.
That's when it hit me. Beautiful design means nothing if your app drains batteries in two hours or freezes when the network drops. We started Embery Harborly Canvas because someone needed to care about the invisible stuff—the performance issues that kill user retention before anyone even notices your brilliant features.
Now we spend our days hunting memory leaks, optimizing render cycles, and making apps feel instantly responsive even on three-year-old phones with spotty connections. It's not glamorous work, but it's what actually keeps people using your app.
Starting From Real Problems
Most performance issues don't show up in your development environment. They appear when real users are on crowded Mumbai local trains with terrible signal, or when they're running ten other apps because they can't afford a new phone.
We've been that user. Our first office in Nagpur had internet that dropped every afternoon. Made us really good at building apps that work offline and sync gracefully when connection returns.
These days, we work with teams across India who need their apps to perform in actual Indian conditions—not just in air-conditioned offices with fiber connections.
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We're not trying to be everything to everyone. Just really good at making mobile apps faster, lighter, and more reliable.
Performance First
Every millisecond counts when users are deciding whether to keep or delete your app. We measure everything—startup time, frame rates, battery consumption, network efficiency.
And we don't stop until those numbers tell a better story than when we started.
Real Device Testing
We maintain a collection of older Android phones specifically for testing. Not because we're nostalgic, but because that's what most Indian users actually have in their pockets.
Your app needs to work on a two-year-old phone with 3GB RAM, not just on the latest flagship.
Honest Communication
Sometimes the performance problem isn't technical—it's architectural. We'll tell you when a quick fix won't cut it, and what proper solutions actually involve.
No corporate speak. No vague promises. Just clear explanations of what's broken and how we can fix it.
How We Actually Work
No two apps have the same performance bottlenecks. But our process for finding and fixing them stays pretty consistent.
- Baseline Everything We start by measuring current performance across different devices and network conditions. Can't improve what you don't measure. This usually takes three to five days of thorough testing.
- Find the Bottlenecks Using profiling tools and real user data, we identify exactly what's slowing your app down. Often it's not what developers expect—unnecessary re-renders, poorly optimized images, or inefficient data fetching patterns.
- Fix and Test We implement optimizations incrementally, testing after each change. Small improvements compound quickly. A 100ms reduction here, eliminating a memory leak there—suddenly your app feels completely different.
- Document and Transfer Once performance targets are hit, we document everything we changed and why. Your team needs to maintain these improvements, so we make sure they understand the work.