DivKit — A Marvelous Development

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DivKit is an open-source Server-Driven UI framework from Yandex that started as a custom component builder and evolved into a bespoke HTML-like system when the original approach stopped scaling. The talk covers why the team created DivKit, how it works internally, and development details of the framework.

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 2:06Speaker intro
3. 3:09Server-driven UI issues
4. 5:11DivKit history
5. 7:57First card constructor
6. 8:39Modern architecture
7. 9:42Core components
8. 11:25Layout containers
9. 13:12Advantages over others
10. 14:16Interactivity and states
11. 15:41Animations
12. 17:27JSON templates and optimization
13. 18:51Variables and triggers
14. 20:19Color picker widget example
15. 22:50Diffcast and extensions
16. 23:52Testing DivKit
17. 25:20Android integration
18. 26:26iOS integration
19. 27:31Server JSON schemas
20. 28:15Limitations and future
21. 28:57Open-sourcing DivKit
22. 30:03Q&A

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