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Components for Android: A declarative framework for efficient UIs

Components for Android: A declarative framework for efficient UIs

10/26/2016 · Lucas Rocha

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This post introduces Components for Android (C4A), a new declarative UI framework for Android development. Inspired by React and ComponentKit, C4A addresses the challenges of building performant and memory-efficient scrollable UIs, such as those found in Facebook's News Feed. It achieves this through a declarative API, asynchronous layout, flatter view hierarchies, incremental mount, and fine-grained recycling, leading to improved scroll performance and developer productivity.

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