hello there, I just want to know if there’s a serv...

# android

[Mohamed Ibrahim]

hello there, I just want to know if there’s a server rendering solution for Android, like getting json describe the ui and a generator in android to do that, I know about compose but I need a production ready solution

[allan.conda]

how about https://github.com/cashapp/contour? Although not exactly the same as Compose

[allan.conda]

or https://github.com/LouisCAD/Splitties/tree/master/modules/views-dsl

[Mohamed Ibrahim]

did you try those libs?

[allan.conda]

well no, I just heard about contour today 😄

[louiscad]

@Mohamed Ibrahim I'm using #splitties (the version 3.0.0-dev-056 hosted on https://dl.bintray.com/louiscad/splitties-dev).
I'm not doing server rendering, but I know it's definitely possible with Splitties.

Do you have any specific question?

[Mohamed Ibrahim]

If you you could give me an example of the back end model to use it in server rendering well I could convince my team to use it

[louiscad]

@Mohamed Ibrahim Splitties is just extensions to do plain Views. The backend model is up to you (and your team), and then, it's just `if`s and `when`s, composition, implementation and inheritance to condition creating, styling, layout…

[Vinay Gaba]

A couple that I’m aware of - https://github.com/airbnb/lona

https://github.com/spotify/HubFramework

[Vinay Gaba]

one of them is deprecated

[Vinay Gaba]

and Lona hasn’t yet released the android side of it

[Vinay Gaba]

but these are/were powering their production apps

[Vinay Gaba]

at least some screens

[Steve]

I have to say, when we tried doing this, it was a terrible, terrible thing. We spent so much time trying to get something to work, and I guarantee you that we spent more time doing that than we saved by being able to change the UI without updating the app.