Server Driven UI on Mobile

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Argues that mobile UI should be driven by server-side JSON templates with a thin native renderer and a template engine that returns pages as JSON. Shows a concrete toggle widget implemented on iOS: template layout + local update + backend API action in the JSON, plus nested widgets, multi-page flows and A/B testing. Describes starting with static JSON bundled in the app, then migrating to an API server so updates, dynamic messaging and complex setup flows change instantly without duplicate platform code.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:54Overview
3. 1:15A brief history of apps
4. 3:22What does a server driven UI look like?
5. 11:21Use cases
6. 15:28Getting started

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