Life is too short to develop only for Android – A journey to Server-driven UI

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A server-driven UI system that ships entire screens by changing backend JSON, not app binaries, is described with concrete choices: Moshi polymorphic JSON for resilient parsing with an UnknownDTO fallback, a view-factory + RecyclerView adapter (migrating to Compose later), and per-component deep link per component plus tracking. A “vaccine” pattern isolates cross-team features by letting a component call its own microservice. No backend versioning causes front-end hacks; the result enables A/B tests and deploys new screens without Play Store releases.

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1. 0:00Introduction and outline
2. 0:48The problem with traditional UI
3. 2:33What is Server-driven UI
4. 7:30Benefits of Server-driven UI
5. 7:53Our journey to Server-driven UI
6. 8:56Foundation of Server-driven UI
7. 12:48Key decisions and implementation
8. 25:16Testing strategy and tips
9. 27:46Content management system integration
10. 28:49Introducing the Vaccine tool
11. 31:57Android development without Android
12. 34:24Conclusion and Q&A

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