Meta Tech Podcast
14: Facebook iOS UI Infrastructure with Adam
Jun 14, 2019
Adam, creator of ComponentKit, an iOS open-source framework inspired by React, shares insights on API design, scalability, and challenges of working on Facebook iOS apps. The podcast also covers Spectrum, an image processing library, and discusses topics like declarative UI frameworks, rendering components on a background thread, and breaking up the Facebook app for modularity.
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Quick takeaways
- Adam shares insights on API design considerations and building frameworks around scalability and correctness.
- Spectrum, a cross-platform image transcoding library developed by Facebook, provides efficient transcoding on Android and iOS with improved support for modular headers and custom SEO load IDs.
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