Using server-driven UI to rapidly iterate across platforms

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Airbnb builds a server-driven UI so reservation screens on web, iOS, and Android update from a polymorphic JSON API parsed into UI components, letting teams flip a carousel to a map across all platforms with a backend change and no app release. Android uses Jackson+Epoxy pipeline to deserialize rows into Epoxy models; forms use Wall‑E for step/validation logic; platform tooling scales into LONA spec with Kotlin DSL, codegen, CI tests, explicit versioning and fallbacks so it works in production.

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1. 0:00Introduction to server-driven UI
2. 2:13Problem with repeated screens
3. 4:21How server-driven UI works
4. 8:34Android implementation details
5. 12:08Wall-E user flow system
6. 17:47LONA infrastructure overview
7. 21:58LONA code generation benefits
8. 24:32Handling versioning challenges
9. 26:42Tips for implementing server-driven UI
10. 28:04Summary and Q&A

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